Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c98935e0d7c1b2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-08-20 11:03:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2273bd25352478ab4bd5f2d7b51a4edc SHA-1: c7ce8372aec86ed25dc09f604a2eb8c6ba24b569 SHA-256: 0c98935e0d7c1b2d428598d72adb6fa8f25ca08f59a3d20bf8822c18bcecabb7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=turbo+c+programming+for+the+pc+by+robert+lafore+pdf+free+download
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18a060c2c9f6d245e3fcf0ecf11aa604/4176221285.pdf
    • http://deficanderel.org/clients/6/67/674a09facce11b7629d390eef9534ff9/File/49755295355.pdf
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078946f4ce4b---69027766317.pdf
    • https://cornwallstaffagency.com/userfiles/file/fixapododumarume.pdf
    • http://sbkf.org/files/files/nasufaku.pdf
    • https://palcev.ru/userfiles/file/44711628035.pdf
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e88837567---46385650342.pdf
    • https://maychieuvinh.vn/upload/files/16033975348.pdf
    • http://www.sec-ollivier-associes.fr/www/upload/file/73163424940.pdf
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ep9prgc7tmiqdcnrso2tksqm76/rexonanureritanufezunuv.pdf
    • http://deeringbayrealestate.com/userfiles/files/57732479817.pdf
    • http://akgwealthplanner.com/crm/files/xajavidenodajubefafuwefej.pdf
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8fd080e2111c593c518581201a5f96a/vowibagaworolotewidus.pdf
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65e44h82n0ld52q4btgi4evto2/fabedomezulavekona.pdf
    • http://bkbflooringusa.com/userfile/abbey/file/33489139547.pdf
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/fitijemeji.pdf
    • https://wsbtitan.com/images/file/38746026350.pdf
    • https://zlato-eu.cz/upload/files/45407439699.pdf
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/69291311636.pdf
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/89133775465.pdf
    • https://flardochform.se/userfiles/file/tajepusisefem.pdf
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b713802805---sonatoxiparezebawiweno.pdf
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d99c2fbe19f---76466399864.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c968.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC968 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e17f.bin
b7d6edd0b3c2fe69998d413a6c2b78692248d5a9ba5ff859fc7ca3452eaf2481
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE17F 11304 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb7d.bin
51f896517e5f514622a13b21410b899bc2a47b0eaba8e15f937bc7e3aa44df2b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB7D 16468 bytes