Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2359b7b29d0fbd8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 15:13:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 26f2eedafb1ed267ecde2b6642be6daf SHA-1: 66b77d32514baf668955d9ae7473fac76358cd8c SHA-256: c2359b7b29d0fbd8bffc29a4d873548783563715e7a9a381cdca66aebf990ea2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristic firings suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/349af68b371734a330e6d781ab910b21/72228182467.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://marinapogon.pl/upload/file/4153361122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e4394564a---xixipubometoboxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vlv1cd16oecd2li7rp4shq8hrs/39672462978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1abf4b8274782db4a9ef39fb396a806b/120821523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b633012946aa6f836f08c6f976e0c308/getojuwozefubezudexulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a22f51852034c24e01d17e65d3b14add/67898643000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lbjvh0lihumpmhmogvqmhum1tg/38234470625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaziogluenerji.com/images_upload/files/1148436938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetsanprospero.eu/userfiles/files/nujupexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mintedimages.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18763069172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160878e39947d9---34350798522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c00877a19cc---36729949650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfac0d0594d---47345972335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castel.lu/userfiles/files/nebuguforatexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kabelkyaobuv.sk/editor_uploads/files/nubuzurisekuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf46c3efbca---totanutileve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srldirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lewerowomufipibatilabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16114e3f40afd5---32038545299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3675a0d988---51591099781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4b4e5518b1---90258373047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charlesstreetvideo.com/userfiles/file/xapajakejevumizem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah168.com/contents//files/ripizoken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beatmuellerfoto.ch/userfiles/files/sejuxadol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=celebrate+recovery+serenity+prayer+pdfPDF 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_off0000dab4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAB4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2CB 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 05f2130a1a0bd38fa9ee2f31206fb21014f67ef3a4e061d31df68143a26be1ec
font_02_sfnt_off00010c37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C37 17160 bytes
SHA-256: 1ad16088550a06eaaa76c1bfa6ce31596f296eb4afe7bd989966f02cfeeed708