Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c95f0d3d679b976…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 03:26:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: dc0d10bc517f44afce38a774e6063d85 SHA-1: 1ec4ed6d04f33d5f32e6c55b4a0854ff87817c7f SHA-256: 2c95f0d3d679b97614f5492b65d4906ecbe1be87683dfabc5aae97412d7512d4
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV, for being malicious. The 'SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content is designed to trick users with promises of prizes or funds, requiring them to take further action, likely via the numerous embedded URLs. These URLs point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or scam campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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
  • Advance-fee lottery/parcel scam lure high SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE
    Document contains lottery/beneficiary or prize language together with large-value draft/funds wording and parcel/courier delivery requirements. This is a classic advance-fee fraud document shape.
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+take+the+derivative+of+a+graph PDF link annotation
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/zenogesemaxawupugux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f101dd1dec82b1d62fc5cc40e67f7c0/fokimuterokoligeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/304317b0554b529d725a22ee2395d204/nefelataxifavegepebel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhvuongthuphap.com/upload/ck/files/fafapetosimos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098130d9afa3---69572196945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbhodgereunion.com/clients/3/38/38e1f81cb1ac74d12d86c8ba87866b9f/File/80964206548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2vjqv9r8nicetofqnb3vs4e470/redid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/84468872934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bec2a0d1e53---pepigol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160881c76ebf40---45450715368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2eb195cdc---30174258203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itexpertdog.com/upload/files/tazivinulafebuzox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2qcl86uam3bpcp1eg8tt9fdpla/tuzowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b68271491fa---15726556989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c573b6791a819babcc0277921fab8c4/91762807780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092bf49daf86---zabiledige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607195c972db9---pabaxadafuxewopejoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/93945645694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://straub-online.ch/userfiles/files/56288047827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/64654584321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coinproject.com/userfiles/image/file/44409500205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/611d747a40b1fbff049a5ce06f6a7822/xazomazuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bca3e7e9ed269b67b3a3573f59a022f/wogaxiji.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_off0000eef2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEF2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010704.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10704 17608 bytes
SHA-256: 850ee099d3c6e59f115e2cfe5d0ed575a42fc24aacb9ffb43ee0ec1be7dd055b
font_02_sfnt_off00013558.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13558 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 3daf54230ddd569776e075c1e61f824545bdf629a5be00fc7e296b7abbfc009c