Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c9617a413862f90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:06:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 92a72bd16b570b7824f1c79d5948334f SHA-1: c1d53b4783cfb329150348c84a41f0f3289a3215 SHA-256: 2c9617a413862f90b0ccc1b0b2f780b7293fdbe56c3c1cf914ec3ec38bd37b2a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's designed to lead users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond what the heuristics indicate.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tgtvan88b4vu8jev4iguqls83r/52506895194.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://termofriz.rs/files/51315688067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079eb317349e---39955330720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610edab210a20---zavuguropijotusodupukod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1986607f0a---84939700002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspirans.com/files/file/joderogoxologuzepizanepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena.de/eros/userfiles/file/pizobeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrospizzadb.com/uploads/files/wogulaguletolizevemajaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/95017759342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1612df7c1e9513---31568337654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pchs1967.com/clients/b/b3/b38b0c0be7ceca4b309dcb684d78a7c5/File/nozadek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aea6d82930---legenazotexilijunawaxogul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/85677083762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07ca3f20d3257a81d216259eeb0e0574/vekopijirikogutaxisesowof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilexgold.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/20046528461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://101doctor.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/60b6c11078ca4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607328a0e3002---55815684467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fese.in/ienupdimages/images/files/fupavipapozor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f98d209277---rokedoverinoduzebud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fcbdd7b44b---20627471657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letsbelegal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gulokugeminafakoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b613cf29826---wotunune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morethancars.nl/uploads/edytor/file/dologitevudaduja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamax-motor.cz/data/dokumenty/56089911716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quiltingacademy.info/fckeditor/userfiles/file/49934884754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=graphing+rational+functions+activity+pdfPDF 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_off0000d928.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD928 17364 bytes
SHA-256: a3bff6e8ef65defb434a5b264bba258a3602e6d36a7921305aa4236e1ca2ade8
font_01_sfnt_off000106c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ed8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ED8 11088 bytes
SHA-256: c51191a88ddffa34b251013fcbeae29c747c59ee5ac34a2c3b7c7b3aa0e15eba