Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c19cf6b195511da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 23:15:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 84b493e73148cc77a84063c62464bd8a SHA-1: b12a6d366bc437d44939c38f46736dfc1a35e6ac SHA-256: 2c19cf6b195511da77b423db1eb6cde5f29e984cc73606e4689b5f60b9c1f6d9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high ML score and ClamAV detection. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or domains that appear to be part of a link farm. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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 http://probeg2000.ru/files/userfiles/files/savizolituzofusamoxen.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eefb4dd698---fewow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoadondientu-ptp.vn/images/ckeditor/files/wadumojav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurogeographyjournal.eu/admin/fckfiles/file/89127550637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lingchuanfloor.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/51210047607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161353e3e1ba04---liwomubagogibam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/19722596241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinching.com/uploadpic/files/202109040205025266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otevrel.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75109260864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--3bsx3iw22bmot.com/filespath/files/20210915105948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turskazka.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xavixofigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sabunwangi.com/contents/files/68780941118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argumentua.com/i/file/76590870185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcv-bo.org/data/fcv-bo/userfiles/file/sekowaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umiyawoodworks.com/fckdb/userfiles/file/lidexavetefutul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barrierball.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57713745540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cncostruzioni.com/userfiles/file/8589006492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davcpundri.com/css/file/1007546866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velkoobchod-man.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fovavakubunijuzob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fb385480c7---regibegojipax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askisan.com/upload/ckfinder/files/tiwezozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614230e91a578---23311895243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iskoruma.com/upload/ckfinder/files/tifigilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goooinggroup.com/userfiles/files/20210910_040623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloverdiamond.com/file/66365094793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=once+upon+a+time+in+bihar+full+movie+download+filmywapPDF 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_off0000d9e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9E6 11248 bytes
SHA-256: 945f917f8af89dbf207d8f6e5085c46d9cf40b48808446851132b2afe6414dad
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3EE 17656 bytes
SHA-256: 066c317cb177e3c094360e94c8213b84fa1907b517df1f3847bfca6e4944084a
font_02_sfnt_off000121f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1