Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c0ba89f824f978a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 23:46:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 7370717cad119bf96d1a117f4078987f SHA-1: 854f7c596c569ac16da0bb6c639eae920101ac87 SHA-256: 2c0ba89f824f978a6d9098b510325de1b34a9a573938d7f1b585bbb7f2e59d1c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs are the primary indicators of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b360c86c9e75edbbdcb5b8283610f37/kuxuji.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f49989a33d56ca42019f28f4f1caa05d/sasitesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clairerolo.com/userfiles/file/13863599978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5c4a27c255---710836140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c27880fcd---sejajujefusipubod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804dc047082---89996605638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/wonupakofebepilitokipobew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3427edabc4581d630ae3b390ed2bbf4e/kemipudodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ystechpro.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/23469135720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/enmn2prkmjqp0nob32n9lskjaa/88984828628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landpas.pl/upload/file/sobani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608343dfda2a3---50944204283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://musikkursus.dk/userfiles/file/maboneparurepero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da76dbc7739cfe3ecea73d374af2887f/tizanijitaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/572f3c01be962bb4c54757f1fd687b05/jofofowejewij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d766f470219---lewujoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8473213070---88068025428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.org/files/files/pavak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/53028618768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160786e3a80586---lafigijowerawaranebasedew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ab3d94c7b---nakoxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caopump.com/admin/userfiles/file/xodizutuguki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e3a472f7e3cd96dd06fa08f4647c1e5/kesifeged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=good+conclusion+for+research+paperPDF 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_off00011774.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11774 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012f86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F86 16800 bytes
SHA-256: 3984778ae54ce18c70772ee05546f14baa47800ae3016d1a36efac1afeffcfab
font_02_sfnt_off00015b3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B3F 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 8b702c991876dc6be8a774afa24910037d70f54f4a5fb46239d6ca2642906a41