Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0a29b753b6bc553…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-07-01 20:13:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 93c7bb8b2ff17e96a924e1f41e82bcd4 SHA-1: cbe382639fa0e37d558f4ef4f8bb40b2de420257 SHA-256: c0a29b753b6bc5532a1c73a56324ce83659960f1fe03866ef53a8fbdf4941f79
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and link farms strongly supports the classification as a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=watch+coco+online+free+123movies PDF link annotation
    • https://majubesar.info/contents//files/doxolakaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcoloringpages.com/userfiles/file/6427228807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/97106545205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r9i6e0u2ukeqa0rl9p22nv2bpi/77813003946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b49f8116c---40388188603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anbao.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/13148714457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a862e0df0db62c5707aeb523d6660d5/70043162379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjatkinson.com/userimages/lokezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7838c0a035c702a5cb5a9d62e8059ec7/doviketunin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/momerateletux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j3bj6k15d1u23lqi74btp4p971/megimananezalanuluvozow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transchem-tech.com/Uploadfiles/files/gosab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b00e4cb67bc---nomopujabikonagage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oddluzanie.net/userfiles/file/liloxomewowin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d95d47b6b13---15952851679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/jejijuruzam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a14012959fe0143f8425219c2e06aef/27013130235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gwhs79.com/clients/867100/File/bokekaruwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seeandhearbetter.ie/img/shop//contents/noxuwononiginuzek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d09g839j390ds8g9dn0cq8a62/76228063432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160756df5c4936---70392724991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stillwaterponies83.com/clients/74660/File/83680418621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbe3924d2bc48c016561f0008afa3988/doxumimogixakuzunoturuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d3977d1df4eb89d4df2200354ed1332/xovalosubefatus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f002.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF002 18112 bytes
SHA-256: 36ff5fca8df5cc3c137c610ee693d2c22ed667a8302218ff63cd182f74e2f1bb
font_01_sfnt_off00011f6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F6B 11004 bytes
SHA-256: d738d0ec31adb29d43d331d309c1e11ac6a762047adc9b5bc87acc93fbadb3b1
font_02_sfnt_off000138f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138F4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1