Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c278685adbf816ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-06-30 08:00:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2c8e30c01cf0470a585f49350c241dad SHA-1: b95a6120d853a04747b7d0a9f321c994a1f03b75 SHA-256: c278685adbf816accd758f33835a60067dc00d04bbe60a5de82b366d73d6846c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URI heuristics and compromised CMS upload links further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://hcvitamin.com/webroot/img/files/xutelowegidupogodonizubeb.pdf
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/lodejujikufubunexi.pdf
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/62502722058.pdf
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c708e23893f---jakanoxofom.pdf
    • https://www.stjohnhomelessshelter.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d72bf1c32207866e94401685d6810782/13132783454.pdf
    • https://esperanzadeavila.com/fotos/file/vewadixabosalu.pdf
    • http://cancercareresearch.com/userfiles/file/kebaleworarobalan.pdf
    • https://brickbodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/51114501567.pdf
    • http://mega.kz/media/upload/files/pifidijazefizape.pdf
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dc8f340f31---68810941059.pdf
    • https://roeveragri.ac.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96a132c857a3208dece16c1e93b48581/raleripewofimifudavefut.pdf
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af628195843---57314265716.pdf
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e2f91f841---41306772808.pdf
    • https://oncallanatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/diwefinofazivelagomisoj.pdf
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6984d9c0eb14e15883c3911013982466/momowu.pdf
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.mx/userfiles/file/mofireremuduwunadiropedum.pdf
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784a01b59bd---96479055837.pdf
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c0dc06aeb---29799030785.pdf
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p22tvais02dqim0ateta29rmgs/dujigosizudomizonizekiva.pdf
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cad644974d---rewavep.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=vba+by+reference
    • 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_off0000fdd7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDD7 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000115ee.bin
1b607d015d0d35b2ab1ceb2ef86f3dd815069bb7310609636b24d028dd144fbb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115EE 10028 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012c5b.bin
4f9ce233ec7961ba1f3a81698f42c447f692a539a26c4cda4b2019c47bc24b64
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C5B 17252 bytes