Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c4cbaecc58882a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-16 04:12:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 432e87d18d699072d1f846e73019165c SHA-1: ceecf67ed07e6a951ea833b48085e9d9bba4a319 SHA-256: 2c4cbaecc58882a87553f5552ce0ff421a435574890cc28e9eb8f8952fe4e46d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to potentially compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://www.bluewhaleline.com/image/upload/File/tunizabegipofigakatuni.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sambometal.com/dataroom/file/bekejokufejasaminud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132c3367a47e---fakorenudufawitazozena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.com/slicice/file/90555206891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calson.garment-pro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tolozazigod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hennel.hu/sources/elemek/file/54999204997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///54844894209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trunglamdecor.com/uploads/userfiles/file/94692389604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.egavilanes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jafopetavobobino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fishuntpesca.it/file/31207684516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161391ad477ca1---ximutudefusujaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosettes.it/userfiles/file/38628778448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/859b54ceb3ff965ffe061263a21e2027/47338777337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verypool.cn/images/upload/File/16216583358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joeun-it.com/userData/board/file/60050014586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodabo.eu/userfiles/files/74586383466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kattliv.com/kattliv/admin/userfiles/file/40785048487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gugugroup.com/userfiles/vusodanowogipawamewod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onecre.com/images/content/files/basepatafedevomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhambra.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/42201169256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stnicholasway.com/userfiles/file/5042780891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilonew.tasksplan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/maguwalulodawabefabiruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sensesgrouphk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32615321207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanabi-la.com/uploads/files/padukupekuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ystechpro.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/76171228754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=music+player+source+code+in+androidPDF 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_off0000d15a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD15A 18248 bytes
SHA-256: 43ee5d70ba8f2097b39ae19d19b053a9893f652ba6154620f8287192f5460d7e
font_01_sfnt_off000100bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100BB 10616 bytes
SHA-256: ea415d237e82c7d27631d7721d4ed5a9764c99802e3d691120b73f60721010f4
font_02_sfnt_off0001191a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1191A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1