Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0ef27e28ec1a510…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-07-06 12:22:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 09e1e869f7de9da862766ff7174f6e05 SHA-1: 2666ca567bbf017746d657592d29691537088de9 SHA-256: c0ef27e28ec1a510c4fab1b1d8bb742976ba268d6c223c2d9aab4cd2078eda03
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites and disposable hosting domains. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest it is designed to facilitate phishing or malware distribution, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=i+get+tired+after+5+minutes+of+exercise PDF link annotation
    • http://oio.cn/uploadfiles/files/witimuwiretesomomafefuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vytvarnyobchod.cz/UserFiles/File/43782169504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krakow4you.pl/krakow/files/48959877646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cc10875fb3e4a54302cca01aed205aa/12768275014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file///2021050111202731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleanyachts.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/lajaroxavikenise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7a79f13066---13807089547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogservice.ru/userfiles/file/xoxupabifezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edwardfmcgintypa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/10871708974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42965cb4a2af950724df9a1c083821bc/96809913858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongphuctqueen.com/upload/files/38296221535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c70b35ecb3b---80115467235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.teeintact.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/img/file/zexolepukip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a529b5883e---43309342021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160830ac366a8c---sepavafepebanir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/kafobojuwitofaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b114ac70a3c---63328585861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0ce44292b70272ef8b70e6e431fd580/bixura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdc0d001942---gakomagetuwudojovepimep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719c3cca2b7---99804989597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/got46jnr3sg3d664uvggngumv3/79482903239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c87faada1---31080769042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210630030920_9kh1bb.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_off0000f0a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0A8 16948 bytes
SHA-256: a57ab874911b539f9ec1659bb59c1fa4fd4abd5353e6aff22a3c706477a03a80
font_01_sfnt_off00011bf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BF6 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 28e93d659aaef47691bc024fa2816b9495243e3d4689ba4a7c48ef98ced80ebe
font_02_sfnt_off0001359a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1359A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1