Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a0c6d8eaae1beba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-07-24 21:22:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: ce67bd498335e93596a878d5d2a81963 SHA-1: 62886c56e9d06034f3404c25eb314c4d9f52e688 SHA-256: 2a0c6d8eaae1beba8e93db81c67cedb5cb72766c7540ae5e75ff8366e7927f84
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The presence of multiple link farm heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://prawobrzeze.info/userfiles/file/74724533216.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://europavloeren.nl/siteimages/file/31752695228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emeat.ru/var/files/83584815119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/kimepugeduridifanap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namhunglogistic.vn/site/files/78760429250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cba3iag75chn0edm848rkos70a/233341847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaykpn.com/uploads/editor/files/dikibuxidiwuxenof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixmyhelicopter.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/tages.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad35e7574e8---miremiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gp23a0stn6hs4anu82huj5gtvg/14311754236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202106181646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blindnow.com/userfiles/file/pifoxufubovuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://denimder.org/resimler/files/nafebak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celebicatering.com/upload/ckfinder/files/85433602804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chetanaus.org/bheru/uploadfiles/file/36903616190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parkettworld.com/upload/files/35393690426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termoformat.md/img/files/rumenulozov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcf1768d8537b67591f1257f152b866c/42713155457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4de30d68b3e33de06cf5f270edb525d0/15197277082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netshopnepal.com/userfiles/file/69565599221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072acd6224b4---zaboxovivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupo-bahia-real-estate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42658838084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b24b8ae3b2e---11612728524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ao9q2m2ioatp71p4p36m7tu470/17738024750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisnismedsos.com/userfiles/file/29176576797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+much+time+to+prepare+for+usmle+step+1PDF 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_off0000eba3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBA3 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 393ebba7608fa7a546ff34db1fe4116d71859e7e572b383ea712dc78dd58ca16
font_01_sfnt_off000104d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104D3 16820 bytes
SHA-256: b007e169d3f8a46f59a4c8daea73a2b69dfb1e11a9ad4a0d6dccfbb3e823aa65
font_02_sfnt_off00013057.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13057 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1