Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c9987c5e54d2802…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.9 KB Created: 2021-08-15 17:29:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d61811624bbb2022781088181f69f1db SHA-1: 0097ab96b5a6f5881e007c222495da56b76931fb SHA-256: 2c9987c5e54d280280f94e78e0ca38071435410d24c324b90fc1d43eb0d4d485
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links is the primary indicator of its malicious purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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.odnpoznan.pl/fotki/file/file/revokepovazuvozedujonigeb.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dichocungtoi.com/userfiles/file/9158237527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q3582etevlg7e0ai30fo3satno/rogat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smepil.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/79865494804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zge-led.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/33782415032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/rixin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c37caead865e9d5a928d041e0f023deb/nesoperarakobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/787ea3e895b0f9ad2644dc9bbd3dae8c/67243898487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89rqri3e0ln53nbd06jkfs5j9c/93885480180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sintellect.ru/Repository/file/vezekasajovibonupatefer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanyoujie.vip/userfiles/file/luminululiwewepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728d837d9e0---55771808126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sealjet.mn/pictures/files/28348342384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulfsupremesa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63471083713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beytarimcilik.com/admin/editor_resim/file/40789274277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kilincsweb.hu/fileok/file/lerekukuvonupirinukar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jancsoalapitvany.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/seditor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edcab158685---17186370388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synagoge-stommeln.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57634614053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all4pets.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jidubogegunizipekaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lukutakek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac76714236c---rusolanemenogaxixexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbfhu6ab4bqv.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/65559249729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+michael+pollan+eat+for+breakfastPDF 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_off000130ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130EF 17704 bytes
SHA-256: b188810b2a4a3c50670e398c225b142142f2df5a84be5ffe2e2ba6474e365162
font_01_sfnt_off00015f8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15F8E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000177a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x177A5 11112 bytes
SHA-256: 737a628eb7be939d60f5354ac2db72f77b0d27cc6d114d15711f03f76decdb51

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