Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0ee5acfd50a183e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 11:48:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: e6dadf17d62c8f696bc2721342d97fd8 SHA-1: adca57e5cf6d4ebbf9a33acf35c087de2a856c3a SHA-256: c0ee5acfd50a183ece2c47224090ac88a0a0a05812e842e57e2c41c385edc2b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of external URIs and is identified as a link farm, with many links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond what the heuristics suggest.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://songhong-thudo.com/img/files/zobesogirufegipatuba.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://travelci.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/turijosimofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c992eaf26b5---80044278427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uhorder.com/upload/files/11767092428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuaspa.com/upload/images-content/files/45719661590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4e3108ebe6---40708747147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtyxbpzx.com/filespath/files/20210825022939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rrcb5moh1vnffu8nag7ntp23o1/90312190798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b20624cb461c308d6213b94f485ab373/nedag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newfrio.com/userfiles/files/pulokegejez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sindafaz.com.br/admin/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/turezasik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/94262960375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--54-dlcdkamdj4btild5b.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81080144508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607feab269527---magenazikezitiriduta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef02e109aeb9ab773fff0662cd7732c1/jedizag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7972dfb1085642737f11a31ec046e404/68636798294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088787450df1---pojoviwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd53090070---juxumizilidulawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://instalacje-elektryczne.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18751126397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/260feaafd77312f919143b49ebed5aaf/94680817709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/koufojt9dc2ke2v821924f12po/85542679100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842c9e0973e---guxoxaloga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6840c53b23fe82df7822c4be98acf10d/depetufaxipopuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/devewax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c7a71dcf90---fejagamibuwoxavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=first+conditional+sentence+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b388.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB388 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 49137a3255bc0b4eef0869c3ff5db02629cb00f6477a6c8a33ed1552aeece736
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBCE 15592 bytes
SHA-256: 7d43d1202e0ec92317cff4bb986c09db98a23080ffff7e50a753e63c22cf4c37
font_02_sfnt_off0000f300.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF300 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1