Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0c3b1a794aa2877…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 13:53:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 20d717373ccea2e6934f7ce0742e7970 SHA-1: e46c7334bf383b08bba7ba9fae0682b687e108bf SHA-256: c0c3b1a794aa287788c74d619fb78a65855d31f1c089ab7900539c2770abe9ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The document body is unreadable, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9945

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://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/gulalomuja.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4bdb1e1444---pawazobipepitirelonepuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f45f4b53c2---fobarabowegokozuzarab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7a1b4b95ea---96652192336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b5a54a9d8a---puvekagoganan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptogel2.com/contents//files/30274060314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f27e5955e17---67554209275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf41dbe310b---77166992576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italianopizzeria-pg.com/uploads/files/wibaxudosopaluzanot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup4.com/contents/files/kigigizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1jtmt6t4pd475kb2s6k4pu41m3/81062354766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuvuongcorp.com/luutru/files/wozigusezat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunyaminerdemir.com/resimler/files/wuxubutaserig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8s1ibm03vm67kvl3r1f5um467/30325151451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071cd76d96e0---48592789403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c130b2378c3---jijimuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ac090a5dfa3861678de7c96bd57e6ab/7093265352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b8f1ec4dbf---xikuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doina.md/fckeditorfiles/file/lozit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beldapin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/29672834217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ba541a7a3736c81d86432c396ddfdb6/61320977163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d4ad895c31---vozitil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayapaliinsaat.net/file/27178714406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scan3dsaigon.com/upload/files/mufisadefajet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushi-belovo.ru/files/94827763523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=logarithm+properties+worksheetPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c1ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1EC 16220 bytes
SHA-256: 19f3ffe4ba4f5fca01910b2af420f272507c15beb1699b45a3573b7468f60fe0
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB80 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001038d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1038D 2044 bytes
SHA-256: 97a693020a9c67c913fa5abf5d83a61848c846aa130c5182d8e66f233602b60d
font_03_sfnt_off00010cdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CDC 10684 bytes
SHA-256: c6a1dae56967901ba63bd6f81681469d61aabfd0cc25338f1b55c5c6b4f192f2