Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2a101e009e145bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 14:52:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b18dee157baf2bfb601c7877903d71c2 SHA-1: bc999a53fcbb547aacfa984a28fbf3a1c84b7b4b SHA-256: c2a101e009e145bd981a2d0896e2079500530ded1756ce85b303ac134c4eb819
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded URLs and the ML detection strongly suggest an attempt to exploit users through malicious links, likely leading to further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://greathorserider.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13058314128.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://maximatrimony.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bozubuxosege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135f1b772ee8---xamiruvujudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatdangcap.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/41550064845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futureinfashion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vutiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glozor.com/userfiles/file/8933953663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/urt38qk2pe4e4jp9g4dfk5cg81/bozapizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autobedrijvenindex.nl/images/uploads/nugotusor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613396f2c133e---saxixema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161426b9a69c2f---84537809618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cokhivietuc.com/img-vietuc/files/liviwudigirofalugoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80adib9cjd8a5e.xn--p1ai/i/upload/files/dedeworaxebisejilokasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narcisse.sk/editor_uploads/files/zewinewelusozikidevovotuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kotypsy.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75002187384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawodydrwali.pl/app/webroot/userfiles/file/80137662212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelite.in/userfiles/file/foroba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polenhosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/12947828335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epmachine.ru/d/files/pozatifepakuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtdental.com/upload/ckimg/files/2679669334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yarpb.ru/pic/userfile/17608703127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savages.lu/imagesRTE/files/18173756119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budaors.varosom.hu/userfiles/files/banigupikovew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacict.or.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36560941902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dce259b5795ca17f94820ab349cbb355/83979646764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvcsoltau.de/userfiles/file/femonenuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=mod+apk+of+bike+mayhemPDF 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_off0000c2d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2D9 16148 bytes
SHA-256: 1cceac69d4ba501c60ec8be4a3361fb8a375b49a363a2cb637976e27ee020f7c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBBF 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 0604be9ba900d59ca2264988423cae43d4a92570368cbe520b60ceea9c397e6b
font_02_sfnt_off000103ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1