Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0a2cfbb4a79cef3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-09-25 01:20:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: c37a8870cda8e774a60d9bad2dae4c5d SHA-1: 22e53650950e05ce1553e79d66db477fe671da0f SHA-256: c0a2cfbb4a79cef38f804f60ca2f3a618eb126e3521279455f1adc183d4843a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the URL structure and heuristic firings are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9837

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://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c8ce1ed9e1---68724824679.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ewdel.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mevibomawiretogadetosupub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.rs/slicice/file/segujaloralosozodakokuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f533c7166d3a68cb761afbf911a799e6/58180422972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariapolis.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99733758644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdtonline.vn/static/uploads/editor/files/21599558658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1aac8e944af12337e203ca554e218b4a/3258944254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birizgardenhotel.com/userfiles/file/fumepagejerokifufudexekun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moestuinwebshop.nl/userfiles/file/nugubobexubimafapuwet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atsamuihaus.com/image/upload/File/wajifasebazil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greatnice.club/updatefiles/file/13395809050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tgroupsrl.com/userfiles/files/rikulalajesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efcosmetic.com/uploadfile/files/zakedoxajazisipudiratubat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinniescustoms.com/userfiles/files/98493062496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dd-eng.com/files/files/vugivafetuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614db27c123b7---vunumerojaxomisafaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ez4parcel.net/upfile/files/2021/09/24/75089245559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palmdale.thepokeluau.com/uploads/files/82741915518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milkyway-vn.com/upload/files/xirovawibefoxezedaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.velkoobchod-man.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12858815090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szybkieprawko.pl/szybkieprawko.pl/user/admin/fck/file/midogapamazabol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613af5a90fb44---34076946730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orchid-daikanyama.com/userfiles/file/34712320801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arabic.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79170614500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edex.co/userfiles/files/40671855624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ce-mi.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/46735760123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wasserentkalkung.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lotinalodufimomab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://undergroundtakeout.com/userfiles/file/zupixofutebim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=run+node+on+androidPDF 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_off0000b36c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB36C 15416 bytes
SHA-256: eb4c568f97f44c9e340899784cc5f42ce6d5c233d9184249d876aeb42825b5d5
font_01_sfnt_off0000da48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA48 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f25f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF25F 10072 bytes
SHA-256: 4d89c90ad53d24c2aee1c25f8d9954f1152a15826ab0a4ddae88427ba9007a08