Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0627e703b689592…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 07:18:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e6a8ca8b581a73c2ade91f87c17b6573 SHA-1: 5921b058834484734853c4230210415cd21e697a SHA-256: c0627e703b68959213c200edcb41aa62034d985947d308262ee8fc5f6682ba88
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the primary attack vector appears to be the embedded URLs.

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://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/zarofawunomag.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2rc2ucuj0cls2g3on0joaog8d2/15897636677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimsanghun.com/upload/userfiles/file/20219115783868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buddhavehicle.com/userfiles/file/3735696979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa7ee74b2f8---nebobujejoromebutunawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allnatureint.com/userfiles/file/10877350082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21effff638d13d47902198c2ba1d32de/pepifipejosifebuxesuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashioke.com/images/library/File/vujemuriwepefukow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/12706523557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penzionradvanice.cz/res/file/75356117490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75cea5f932cceb3e4db8f237e4acf3e9/11114183617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q8sbilvi93ob93g96u4e1qbnp2/84307183645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epoxidice.ro/mm/file/5895179467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debandhelder.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rofowezakagogukis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jggsj31lvmllo8v4pjqlte6erc/vudojatabipigepizomej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/sozawugotozupapulafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-businessplan.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/3277899480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c7978ac18d06670406d6bd486ce6bc0/43248851980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cochleartudaskozpont.hu/files/tufiduxunowufopowewepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms01bet.net/contents/files/tekefapejekutusomoder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burattinojatek.hu/userfiles/file/96900254451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunsoftinfoway.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/modunepozagosozub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zwickerfoto.hu/_user/file/62818905400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drrajanmahtani.com/userfiles/files/misuzedafitas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/vosuzafuwokefovonurofiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=mcsa+2012+pdf+70-410PDF 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_off0000d3d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3D9 18012 bytes
SHA-256: 2a18ec76d823ddd3ade8322f30fb876364728397f514fc0af45b577e0e3b7088
font_01_sfnt_off0001029c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1029C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ab3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AB3 10368 bytes
SHA-256: cfc58903f2116bc218ff080f612b19ecdc30fd5d62f23f5fa2447793dca593ea