Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0c48825bfbf10f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-08-19 17:50:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 2b4522a4d0d847631c3be755a51de719 SHA-1: 2c8d0e9b3cc50410be77693596678c22ea90f8e1 SHA-256: c0c48825bfbf10f380d4f13b01e4937a240fc1833cbeec2e310f131704709022
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=chemical+bonds+worksheet+middle+school PDF link annotation
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b1b77f2a8a---24718713779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/87678455655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuanlongland.com/upload/files/zafopivitudexadonepupufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f117194d30---laxixuvowopejesutenapetux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theettiaresottawa.ca/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/64707060805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkinshigh62.com/clients/7/77/7764523e397120ad9b09b1da26998858/File/zijebutidasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gopherandsquirrelcontrol.com/admin/images/file/41890235400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izeninfo.net/admin/upload/files/12897730606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velkoobchod-man.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73415888066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nusratali.com/userfiles/files/rarovus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bwawarszawa.pl/upload/file/81533994868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://takeacode.eu/user/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e/file/60870303082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canyonoaksmtg.com/~duckdi5/canyonoaksmtg.com/content/file/66205918318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2c6a81d39693f683b89f611a411c15f/22082636837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077761561470---99852348461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.celso.org/download/64474139782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/saluxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ee370e84c4---jegad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jpjplumbingandheating.com/FCKeditor/file/fiwopewudofitelabapexixek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2848459962738ed507be88bbb3f1d988/37596804118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085a64b4a25c---mozab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/tasawawoladajunetokixova.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_off0000d505.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD505 10984 bytes
SHA-256: b6dcd0ee87182edeb469d579b1f29710a312b649a85354962838fc2b270fca39
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE6C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001067e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1067E 16644 bytes
SHA-256: cc232506f4e8ee20fd8685ca0d92f5533b65985125150baa8cdf4dbcfbff975d