Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c284298b878169f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-07-27 04:57:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 4e0616d91e56e26afe96364503be3dbe SHA-1: 39b23716e0914274b8424ffa1aa4a2dd0a808f31 SHA-256: c284298b878169f7eb14a78a700e4450a75ae3e07a40fd29f1f7c4c9951a6dc7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it serves primarily as a container for these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f92db54e406---19726498045.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72c8a4eb74c780f7aa7857814110efce/bamovaxuxobonusagisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spoilersmensgolfclub.com/clients/865201/File/noderumax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/obukulakizegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd1977ca48---wotanovowapewabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ef92aa10a26c8b0e08cad3ca75f3a88/vuroxozepava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdemlerkoleji.com/resimler/files/mewukipuroruxatelapikusuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://el-system.jp/uploads/2012/files/tukurusulivute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160714afdc198f---dibibotawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc50641b49baa3803808837307e8a18a/loguxegugukukinina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b8bbb16be---vumivevikopisomilojot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ldcpc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nupepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608444983fc65---nilalanil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/upload/save_image/files/75586021878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karlsbach.de/userfiles/files/54784789988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c76c1270d7d5a8449334ffc06342af29/mefetazufafowukajaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s13mt06gns3jma4p78j3namgdk/bunoravurafikuzusajojifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jukn5ir6gb8qf3ogna4q5660i3/tulekepogurusadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otczenacts.com/media/files/59069635542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghalemdi.com/userfiles/file/54644098298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9d84353b0---54554375420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toromecanicorodeo.com/files/xitemoxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2897a34c34ed7581498f9ce117273fca/69131473714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cnc-ar.ro/files/file/41298191006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/1037447321608b6b0fc353a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=simplifying+basic+fractions+worksheet+6th+gradePDF 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_off0000c929.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC929 16392 bytes
SHA-256: bbec16922f676cd565b1316589493cca64a760843c6312fb8cacb8f1e3e9e388
font_01_sfnt_off0000f363.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF363 11744 bytes
SHA-256: 2bc77d75ed1a1067a72a6955f3c78ebb14db84e9d9e04506459eeba3cdd53669
font_02_sfnt_off00010ee4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EE4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1