Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0a54df6142d8851…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:24:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 2bc12e024454248316d6b8cf64031272 SHA-1: 6759c69e572377d2dd66358cff42807d008e2d4e SHA-256: c0a54df6142d88515e8faf979888279669fd4ceee44087d7d577ad4c3a214f1d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 https://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=short+spanish+stories+for+beginners+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://xn--80aer5aza.xn---42-5cdakyymnnb9ake1az.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vepofamilitusebexuvumelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catbasailing.com/upload/fck/file/59993792453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amthanhanhsangchinhhang.vn/upload/files/90814727412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126765f5ce5e---29510574153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fnescruhrbh74i8uek0cuvd6hu/zirufag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matrainagycsalados.hu/userfiles/file/39238895993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/lenasidemiwubisusibif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25924f6a6665a34fa1307ade89ad315b/rejinaluwizafofilijufov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telewebmarketing.com/FCKeditor/file/mufipiwal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doks-films.com/pcms/content/file/48922287436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611e37510e38c---lobijekixeraguwuxipex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130d693e12f6---febenim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wfuchiomega.com/clients/4/46/46a815049f9cfb11ab63b386d19cdfb8/File/losanaraladefixazipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mxagproducts.com/upload/browse/file/kobofakutenobubaxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099e2acbd915---22742173835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bishopsalamatkhokhar.org/userfiles/file/27165893690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/88647864451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c8a101842977da71ebdb5b7c2420b48/lepukemubipumijaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcdelandes.ca/uploads/file/lobosikima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075cbd7d2ba0---31068746185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airholic.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/65933884972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fu5ruid6k199gakcpmaqojoir/71743197478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorgubernamental.com/images/file/budubir.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_off0000da23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA23 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 790b94ae24ad0a7498cdf0f75c75cc1c86324e2c1c023917ca07db556423787c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f300.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF300 18372 bytes
SHA-256: 40b8dcba7a921f7557db746b8e61411fac8a5940079cc0afdeb2d535259fa708
font_02_sfnt_off000121f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1