Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c065bb84692ca0b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-08-13 23:21:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: e2d7a30ef186bd7ed3ca970a483a66cb SHA-1: db1b73cfcb27a1cf6d5fcb01c8c4b81d445a00ef SHA-256: c065bb84692ca0b19891b0e02fc0c9caabd11bc1a01c5c71838cafe7e87b0714
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and potentially malicious content. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload directories suggests an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://4cmedica.com/ficheiros_upload/file/zotowexupam.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38c45606b2f99adaf2c3972dd12fd317/88242472593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osrclass1967.com/clients/8/84/84e84eb3bb32f45446e669e24fea3ebc/File/mugokubin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lbe2c86npc05cebp30doq0dh2t/92207135378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arichaindia.com/userfiles/file/80417526678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa5e4e40aaa---65433583262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scamps.biz/userfiles/file/92756866517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c1bb9c59bc---jolij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtsp.by/userfiles/files/nemimibepofuzelebivawikom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meta-min.com/files/bujejudikerivuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/jagisamozox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/6497330548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://danfort.lv/userfiles/file/roponejazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygoaltv.org/ipp/images/uploads/files/59416374835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cc10120681---38186819015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meta-min.com/files/46843023933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matchedtubes.de/userfiles/file/17727833638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072892ce5357---rixuxaxopinur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cee5e2d75546a990cda5e7e04d098b34/rulibof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16115b8be30dcb---55393297638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanxuattrucauthangkinh.com/Images_upload/files/11553789253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c610a0f5d---89062708308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g44egdok2013v3os20ppim5o0q/ruliwobumedegog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=veer+bala+rastogi+genetics+book+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000daf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAF5 17616 bytes
SHA-256: 62fd0432ca8c9938fea40c89607bed16c14333433a82778f575f85fc45c4a896
font_01_sfnt_off00010987.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10987 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001219e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1219E 11084 bytes
SHA-256: b896a700c431683affcc7dc6408916330d6930e1168617c64a40bed0d345c685