Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c0e3ea48c6339b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 01:59:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 570e08882ef30cc83e36d84597c03244 SHA-1: 304e0ca0894a293295a962e60c0319007a558f34 SHA-256: 1c0e3ea48c6339b5f4e6bbe9dce9c1fc5201216175b36faa70babb8fca2b2d59
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various domains, likely to obscure the true malicious destination or for SEO manipulation. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links and disposable hosting further supports its malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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 http://broadmoor80.com/clients/866172/File/munimevotilopugamomuzoma.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4641041d67---nawunasefigove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huron81reunion.com/clients/f/fe/feec28e48c841af8be4ad6373737a022/File/46882681696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db958bf6aa444f8c5e5202cb3c2ffffd/74128205422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/68217804371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ats-dz.com/userfiles/file/52480177590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecrivains-consult.fr/easyonline/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ligadelanijovizubedeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digemnd.com/UserFiles/file/78591369427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butyfarm.mm520.net/userfiles/files/51765006507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thetitangroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ab4e4e1d821de0dde1e98e69a6411ce/48540734341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgc.to/sites//web/upload/files/logutodububozivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dydlhx.com/upfiles/file///21124313647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inbond-cn.com/userfiles/file/71763778690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a79340939ff---60638592041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/186958144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160750c50b5a1e---lesurubun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5f6878e6a---sobolukaxerupax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icltindia.in/userfiles/file/fupama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbmeti.it/userfiles/files/58480783993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67379890e0b3f42af9760bb7c05267b1/barozujuzixasaxob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starcity-vinhomes.vn/app/webroot/img/files/42664545439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apicn.net/upload/files/89034825423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u7b3v01clq1854r63v38f1jtns/kapexetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=crosley+c10+manual+record+player+reviewPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ce9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE9A 11148 bytes
SHA-256: a5805f4927c1b380b948aa1bf8a7919ab0b1eb354853aa0ba056248796e8e14c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8B4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000100c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100C6 18196 bytes
SHA-256: 074effa36f523a7590e02c186e6870bb49f271f44477f06234099511243f8e70