Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c4fb1180fbd98bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 04:41:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: cfd7f00e108e9b03e0ac48829ca0f818 SHA-1: b297da42a78324a36030435bab03ccf9c061a343 SHA-256: 2c4fb1180fbd98bbedb074ad37770238533b6aa3a6e99c079de1b3fe0d75fcf5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, presenting multiple URLs hosted on compromised websites, likely to lure users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=why+do+i+keep+going+back+to+someone+who+hurts+me PDF link annotation
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7b14d0657a---zibuvagaxitowozivijutof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quatanggiabao.com/images/uploads/files/40947773800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leinerpakgelatine.com/survey/userfiles/files/3829547183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160733ec36870b---84205350964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8ada52b262---73780284659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/97650616823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deepakbatteries.com/uploads/file/dojutowotademirupixar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc4572cca934f06494a625effca888f1/zezosun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medprobr.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e50510c73792a1da383de50d4727ccb9/dobomajuxonoxeburederoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnmanagementsolutions.in/uploads/70306106353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9bd3f8ccad---werafuzaten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26odl8qvjv75ihqaj47iqtml3c/36324482889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartcirclegroup.com/userfiles/file/reserawolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6adada99e2---xojizoduzijerepizif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5ad095dc3---vekibasatuwusoxujum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070c378b2711---nijaropopawugavatenomoxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/788df712e124f5ee547d06f0d390734a/61107826822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf980576ec6---nukajomowepuluworotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a71a94f59eaf20866300d0ed2a0e4509/85072227071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vnv869rtsesr41f1eaip7e6b1s/98614475084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/beb2b24494438dbf928cc7773d088d42/lipukelaroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078bcd70ace3---50397818913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160948905ad332---xiwaxobaxuzixenetog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kme.pl/global/app/webroot/uploads/file/1624158215398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df4747d581163a7a456fe8abae3ce821/94359481911.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_off0001359c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1359C 11440 bytes
SHA-256: 4858bab514f73ede01215422590126d9e9f0682021451c01791d99b35e40cf5a
font_01_sfnt_off00015018.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15018 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001682a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1682A 16892 bytes
SHA-256: a6eb3dc1f3e94323aa3aced6474beb7f8081d8dacc9fbb0dfd50534283c81426