Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0a537c26dc43198…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-08-14 15:20:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a69d051da144985b1df8077c09ee20e9 SHA-1: 355e53ab111fd4755f70433b33e6e664b8ecb8bc SHA-256: c0a537c26dc43198fe813708a1161ec2ff0e86fcb5d072763f28c3066f3c0e20
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or appear to be disposable. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to click on these links, potentially leading to further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

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://cungcapbaoduongcuanhatban.com/upload/files/popumawibapewim.pdf
    • https://adreshosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/10445248316.pdf
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23d8699a9deab1ad2894c51eb415ceb4/nelupatofub.pdf
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210502154810108.pdf
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611680a19f297---burerobenaxawe.pdf
    • http://camonetinternational.com/files/file/defid.pdf
    • http://erisalaw-chicago.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/35502859935.pdf
    • http://asesorgubernamental.com/images/file/50780845621.pdf
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/nowote.pdf
    • https://used-machinetools.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/wogizefepurezite.pdf
    • http://bahtiyardishekimi.com/fckfiles/file/41372195202.pdf
    • http://maybomchuachay24h.com/Images_upload/files/20941546235.pdf
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kmppuja8f14uvukd9k3o47sta8/20258660556.pdf
    • https://procogs.com/FCKeditor/file/jojuzuzekega.pdf
    • https://beyondpins.com/calisma2/files/uploads/58193814784.pdf
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ho4e8dg5pi0geljmfvml2rndm1/kovukigurorofa.pdf
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2ad0b5a3a6---88150463099.pdf
    • https://diarch.in/WYSIWYGImage/file/40062062062.pdf
    • https://lentes123.com/aym_image/files/wupadobixofeb.pdf
    • http://petrduchek.com/files/zewopuzujovifolexego.pdf
    • http://sllight.ru/design/img/upload/file/fotajulabe.pdf
    • http://leadershipcareer.kr/fckeditor/_upload/file/zafebowumupe.pdf
    • https://solener.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tawatuxukolomiruboba.pdf
    • http://tw-sincere.com/upfiles/editor/files/12154459837.pdf
    • http://www.ekoforte.com/upload/file/58602321941.pdf
    • http://xn--12cbg9dihj7egda2g6a7dceb1d2cp4nvgf4f.com/datas/files/kexixabukodefaxoxuzufug.pdf
    • https://www.westcountrystoves.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8471d0fdf354e2e8216809aa10102544/9188187884.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=trissel%27s+handbook+on+injectable+drugs+20th+edition
    • 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_off0000dc03.bin
f6939f71f188d4453888a9cfc823468c15f0cebfd2635c4120446ce6cee73f39
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC03 17416 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001085e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1085E 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012075.bin
aabb4b3a8e3b4431ba35d6ba578875d49cf58a52e5283a93231d88299ecb9054
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12075 11348 bytes