Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c3c0a6dab7dbee7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

119.0 KB Created: 2021-07-23 18:12:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e728b381e656691608080e37ee28e0a7 SHA-1: bd907bc0dd0b4515557b6b8c02c1f7eb9177c007 SHA-256: 2c3c0a6dab7dbee7a9e2b3a285c44474aa23950c8efe3a0739137a4a0deb0bde
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, forming a link farm. These links likely lead to phishing sites or further malware downloads, consistent with a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9859

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a300964af596fe81161cdcb6e49c2f9f/torowomuw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072398933d2a---xenitajarorurug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e43d25b271---lipejidomiwexubumeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a94d946b36f---wotonuxekekemulikaxufob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kti62c83k2ras14rcfuuqmtaii/daxodipagajeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibliotekaludwin.pl/img/upload/files/xukuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sudhirsachdevaclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/nunugafobepikovokefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bufolari.com/public/immagini/file/36279036696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/30429571178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/768821b2e0cf04b24aaf6194f07c2973/15497015235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scottsdalehighbeavers1978.com/clients/80197/File/56573228532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u3t995k1bg79i9hsao4kfag3hk/jometekamuzizid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb59f38b7c7---68557066446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074474da4090---pedabanobojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca3aad7f25844caa602edeeda6951769/48819722762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aneri12.cz/res/file/vebetibilawabododewojam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/19486483139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socukorglutamatmentesfuszer.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lusos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangs-ns.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210704180455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.net/data/filestorage/upload/files/51780935539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/voposoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iis8thpf2b9l19blj3r2hel6g3/dipaberonulejetewupup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opakowania-loga.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/sujedorurodolejavexawab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160773472d6b55---76942818436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9b167b6af4---58655845024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://memoservicesrl.it/file/luvizazuxidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkojicin.cz/userfiles/file/tasoruris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=a+chip+of+glass+ruby+memorandumPDF 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_off00016bbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16BBC 17384 bytes
SHA-256: 0db9bc5a9f830c2dc40387dfdb2c22f42c49d9036c32a2d87000d7e127ac5cb4
font_01_sfnt_off0001990b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1990B 11304 bytes
SHA-256: 839a049b09ef700e2607e75d38c808f7cf7a4f15d988fc01ef2bd5256fe9893d
font_02_sfnt_off0001b309.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B309 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1