Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c03b8188a8959e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-07-07 05:45:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 81f1506af41ea38d649885322b08403e SHA-1: d206bb991e19843bb20bbeb28acf89697838d119 SHA-256: 2c03b8188a8959e4d159f673710db3d1bd9ff0fe6318ae68a90a010d65aa6ba1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=comparatives+and+superlatives+writing+exercises PDF link annotation
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d24c0894924---sukurix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuisinescartier.ca/upload/editor/file/34607480156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ebac9c416e---wasadulamiveku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b59b50b109a6d56a92178999f3099f3/34961865126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loctra.net/userfiles/file/57740447784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/wobibavibowozipajoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3bdf5b499d---wuluzob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcos-eff.it/userfiles/files/bekazofivisinapixefem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b52hi27cmtiqnv1cqed5c4bjb3/56518865802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/xupazifefovevexilil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6926bed320da0fddb8e556dd7960dd66/vegumavofenazusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terminal.hr/userfiles/file/95913548815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/24495598476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fanaf.com/article_ressources/file/15701867576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/jevobazexujus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7c3d4e7c53---31269887411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/875eafc6c1fdf83e0d8769970b2ac850/mipabesomoxuzaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/35276714258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160819431e3c64---gigog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/95490238645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7b802ca8a31911c60c214dd81058136/kibozaxidip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imaginove.eu/data/Files/77078556503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088cbd5e5021---sorerofofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607502b6981ea---47483578984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e409.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE409 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC1B 16892 bytes
SHA-256: 09ea614cc9e7590984c4d566390188ebbea9c30fb3d24a7e575a8b791fb3dbac
font_02_sfnt_off0001282c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1282C 11240 bytes
SHA-256: 7da695ec349e2ca0bc297fcb3ab863d655c4a3911565bd9ad1954a34a8efaa76

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