Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c00b103f8442bbd3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

109.4 KB Created: 2021-08-13 13:42:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 91e7a50e3499f0d4c7cd834e7d43e69d SHA-1: ba5afe9561102535a48cc7ce551f68df45c5075c SHA-256: c00b103f8442bbd30637cbc622bd02f05fc045e159c6af1827278da8339fa89d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9872

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 https://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=thomas+newcomen+steam+engine+facts
    • http://flyingcarpetclementines.com/userfiles/files/80198066878.pdf
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/17533596595.pdf
    • http://beautybybelief.com/admin/images/file/laloxevenarixapumi.pdf
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a2e35b7ed3---segugogepadid.pdf
    • http://www.multigacos.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/wedinaso.pdf
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77dc5f507ee7d447165b91697f913175/62417513541.pdf
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbc828a74b---81997074690.pdf
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b87eb6b670cf98b6dabcb7a30818bf2/85049047822.pdf
    • http://kistours.hu/userfiles/file/28423883381.pdf
    • http://samurairamenbar.com/uploads/files/jenuw.pdf
    • https://agentcctv.com/userfiles/file/monatozuk.pdf
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a07569b6e518acd1a750a56b11d3401/65181900505.pdf
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b5e450d53---52206227045.pdf
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607babd6a24fa---28970439990.pdf
    • http://selfmadefilms.nl/userfiles/files/dukokebisaguxab.pdf
    • https://bepxuyenviet.com/upload/files/8071507631.pdf
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/90783130219.pdf
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096363e78907---vujupoguw.pdf
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/fiwixodudemivufumuzoxa.pdf
    • http://hpworld.hu/data/pic/Image/file/33704317767.pdf
    • http://pechati-piter.ru/userfiles/file/16541108489.pdf
    • http://vtvxm.vn/userfiles/file/19074701130.pdf
    • https://ngoctraithaibinhduong.com/uploads/news_file/74778181943.pdf
    • http://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/14494754976.pdf
    • http://di-tech.kr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/lutojetimofaz.pdf
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd2fb024ace---12718729283.pdf
    • https://dimensioninteractive.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/sobolafemusakivusede.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00014903.bin
7f3514d808057bc3249676bb9cbd235f36ba134eae6bcfa82b3d4106c5c91a69
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14903 17096 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00017550.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17550 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00018d67.bin
996060c7e4538e2a15db7acec8a60b73fe1da5333c4ee52ca1329e7270d6ecbe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18D67 10688 bytes