Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0e3e2e02ed03561…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-07-02 02:34:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 75a7dc3e96233ad2aa71b1652aef2eb1 SHA-1: 6898ca10b73d4b3dff76d7a2030736e940db6605 SHA-256: c0e3e2e02ed03561c29f82b96dc1ce5cff3a66c80c796c7707fcc36aa375bb3e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to exploit users by directing them to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=welding+consumables+calculation+pdf
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6940b697a01395f1357087e7e95b0e84/pepoxub.pdf
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j1fpfv5udspbmnccvfpv7q8476/kubekajuzal.pdf
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///49462587335.pdf
    • https://heyratacademy.ir/file/11974817111.pdf
    • http://jatyn.cn/upfiles/202106/file/1625025979.pdf
    • http://xn--zb0bw3kv4s8mn.com/upload/fckeditor/file/kemojirotapokibog.pdf
    • https://www.hemoroidklinigi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d26df7ae78---dorolabamewivew.pdf
    • http://fobosgrunt.ru/files/ckfinder/files/75801562283.pdf
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cea928969a---28038757375.pdf
    • https://mobilieroccasion.fr/uploads/file/64670927957.pdf
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b064047855e---67826287820.pdf
    • https://perfecthospital.org/FCKeditor/file/dixazokagitexuge.pdf
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/31690013697.pdf
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bacdcc2aa6---xivazonegejefoxajoman.pdf
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02kq4mf6p36qog23d7rv8uv0qc/xoritojitijukabaditut.pdf
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607096ccc2b81---77540807435.pdf
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abee80c058dbeb1d6a26ebc1a10a0506/42307727681.pdf
    • http://vyveva.eu/UserFiles/File/26139495144.pdf
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/349cb6e675e5705d05a3660347f8b7df/nofafodotamolaluti.pdf
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c2b65f292---sejitujikiza.pdf
    • http://shiokuda1.com/contents//files/26567006946.pdf
    • https://vmwarts.com/ecovic/file/92161692123.pdf
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i9vn04r6mpj7nd1gfueb2ujb99/43636924259.pdf
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ece096af2e365ef3c546516ee6fb4a42/31036575034.pdf
    • 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_off0000c679.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC679 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000de8b.bin
49e491392149fbced2b503223a94fbdf0bf62bb6e9a2ae52ab1e02c68abca8db
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE8B 18908 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010ee9.bin
9710211dda843dfc9b968b19f6876648aefa99a0e84776157683e874a8d1da84
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EE9 11096 bytes