Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c53d0833c2c130d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 04:09:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 39a5eb5989cc4b00505c0bbf84c02bc4 SHA-1: ff93195f35a0c5f0bc0ee9ad2ee362a3704fb5d6 SHA-256: 2c53d0833c2c130d4c6dad71df452e4910d4d7768f290f006a1b62951eb65642
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malware. The presence of a 'download' button lure reinforces the malicious workflow.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://postele-z-masivu.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73446791638.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90791566491b69ef2a0129050cbdbb10/97716270441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boothbayharborshipyard.com/userfiles/file/bobubixuxutas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f2c47484065247244e19dc82dc024c9/91904136402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandplaza.bg/uploads/assets/file/54120681527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nabijdefossa.nl/upload/files/427526979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://messtores.ca/fck_user_files/file/zutexezorarut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfe235d13ad---kenonewidudejurezexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuxihemei.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210605_101041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kencert.vn/uploads/image/files/ridubebemibij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kaudbaibuutb5g8nf3io3k7lhg/65851856941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanleyresources.com/images/40400317260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/quci8s2u3ra20aofpjd95elf59/60237353939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osteriailgalloelinnamorata.com/userfiles/files/29907321868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ccengis.be/applications/ckeditor/addons/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/megudap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2fa7be7659---68131263252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interstroy96.ru/uploads/files/xukerivonadowewakot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.info/files/files/sajoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meesens.be/KrMee/Tekstverwerker/zifunizatosexib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4grd.com/cmsimages/file/59186794336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4dfd7a5a49---89399195136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/87042697159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/tezidoted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hram-uspeniya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94064888112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=class+10+cbse+question+paper+2020+sciencePDF 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_off0000cfdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFDC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7F3 11080 bytes
SHA-256: 0a8d685f3b1bee6895745448c9d9b9a8b915922c7fbd30ecaaf3060a6b502aef
font_02_sfnt_off000101c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101C2 17940 bytes
SHA-256: 095aa47959590033167b7fe2ef621ce6205470a4e78f04d8e52a38bcaa22da15