Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0ffd605097a0fa6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 22:50:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: de079764cd2fe00c019a6ac6d9a25895 SHA-1: b8b48846b4d278d245715c3a33a84fdb521c453b SHA-256: c0ffd605097a0fa6077bce849cd8e80b4dd13452269aa7352be07bd1f1dcfc85
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to direct users to external, potentially malicious content. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=french+homophones+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://areaengineeringsrl.eu/userfiles/files/nezemesivebipulivel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seerupit.dk/assens/file/gikuzodid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aahsclassof1978.com/clients/b/b6/b6117739535924054831d33ecd54b00a/File/gevumaxujaxeludul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pi69ab5vc9ju9u08497v0e9pik/10344229359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wkd-uk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16b33722046aecf3f7442dd64dc75e12/80924499482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c4fa1993e---80527487889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oilandgaswork.com/userfiles/file/sereja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartpaintingplus.com/userfiles/files/4406176429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf1b3f0852865415f63262e904b818ec/10766176280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa4b8c4bf9b---birege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhs75aa.org/clients/0/08/08eb77d093c5251d787cf05842b4a73c/File/jozazedinewinigarovazuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b26vfhm07hud9k85ugluf7ss17/54544680758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de94a324bb9---rubefejovunowawesomod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gz-theoutfit.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210826064455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scantech3d.com/files/41557026960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasintorn.com/images/upload/files/jarewedolubumuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gilleyfamilyreunion.com/clients/6/6c/6ce887ac6ce8bbcacf46524318b1f362/File/17723110388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pesj469l5lvb9vuv2fj49ivfes/wugaletarod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matras-devison.com/upload/file/28314144230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37026172468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://warwick-ems.org/userfiles/file/99042826786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faxik.online/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31743315500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephfellerlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xizugovetuf.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_off0000ce58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE58 18232 bytes
SHA-256: b7c106f82846e06ed8cd5cb709c083e41af0d21cd2b97ad1e8ea9d93302944b6
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD43 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 969493147d2a88ed96c86da9b57ad3ec848283a458f6ae2f19cec1cfa965918f
font_02_sfnt_off000114bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1