Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2b1eda9939d7a43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 20:35:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 800a4bd70d0e6e229266c79f3260edc4 SHA-1: 4e9d75e8a0f60ca438b99848350d96b25a84a5c9 SHA-256: c2b1eda9939d7a43b39437e77151fc61c36a68718f2dad9a08117668f0e31b0f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to obscure the true destination, with one URL specifically identified as a potential phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160920743a0965---febim.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hollandunitedreunion.com/clients/5/52/52f3fdf721cdccceb566e47094f1d9de/File/fugorumuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelindigha.com/FCKeditor/file/mivanesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f55225743e---48284356188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8k5r356esngpqvv2qon8nabf85/26253662622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/57991689856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rubensova16.cz/files/file/tixamitosavubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmkonsult.cz/userfiles/file/mefabifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmobilewebsite.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/932c614971fade83510274c4479b29ef/zimenugavomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7da1e6237c09db5973dd1bceb0e9e0bf/dafol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bl7hkh5v7p3q94g6naee10r929/85522236962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/16842984188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamlulanjina.com/upload/files/xozifolijikofisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joebalogh.ro/imagini_ws/rakenogoxorogopim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/bowagonejapodusag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playbabydoll.com/userfiles/file/milimamejagipijalotoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atol-res.pl/uploads/file/jigadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malopolskiszlakwinny.pl/upload/File/toper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nilsahost.com/calisma2/files/uploads/65576116181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ddd1c51a9ebbf18be283f86018e7757/sonanarosidubarixobumaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aggengr.com/uploads/CMS/file/gijakifibanawurupek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fd663897b2---xufebavovanodinupor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b07eb9983---96947176197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ee26e31d4f467e2a43552e9209cf56f/98034392581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=general+insurance+accounting+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_off0000e3be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3BE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBD0 16756 bytes
SHA-256: 3d84031b115ee8a47d1130a2bd20c5beb6fb4051b6519ff4958b0d275ee998c0
font_02_sfnt_off0001278d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1278D 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 797f8a0fc5c68df06806b671f2526e44d96102ed88182d52f5ef8cc97b977c58