Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2b0664e1b0fa366…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 00:04:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d412ce65509f7b1e7ddeda00950d972d SHA-1: b5f4bb9a8964191ba453115f2588364748004b9c SHA-256: c2b0664e1b0fa3666a2626145b3e1e1286f95364aa5b8459cea5f2910c4407b5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it is used to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of PDF link farm heuristics further supports its role as a lure for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=revista+natura+pdf+ciclo+07%2F2019 PDF link annotation
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f72fdd63f0b5edad30064e655033f731/guneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eletvital.hu/uploads/files/57022371326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59jeblodk34965nnnnl7lfvod5/vikudovok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafconsulting.pl/Upload/file/90151436049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsg-vaganovskoe.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55396260547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/enutj7r77ulnde7kk3jarplifr/gabalusez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://methese.com/upload/files/77542155629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22b4c84b52a1643fa7b1b2dcb85a5e0d/73715884754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjzhtchem.com/upload/files/xanobiditabubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirai-kankyo.com/userfiles/files/77381883584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylowa-pss.pl/userfiles/file/90342116614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.multilandtours.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20518373997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiaangkorhomestay.com/userfiles/file/junogabaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwlondonblvd.com/uploads/files/gojitexefufimipinez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elesud.it/img_pagine/file/rikopuwibulimono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wedding-photos.cz/userfiles/file/tifijirilukigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apcmagon.com/userfiles/48543117611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/sisefonolifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612cd08edd678---40521297720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galluccifaibano.com/userfiles/file/87581458367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61a4ca3af2ecf52c03ec4494cb2ee9c7/gupisaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beatmuellerfoto.ch/userfiles/files/9339430643.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_off0000dd32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD32 11372 bytes
SHA-256: d68eb06a7b8371b7d64243355946c2adb525fadcd129b1276050e6b548fe18b1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f853.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF853 19352 bytes
SHA-256: 2b250c4f172e3289de136447d073a821899276a02da27931e0955fbb21e0624a
font_02_sfnt_off00012a00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A00 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1