Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2b7c0bc91752f9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-09-21 11:57:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f6dc26ec66b1e293f0b5792b5f5d8479 SHA-1: 597d580093018596b6d4d15305fdbb640e37a648 SHA-256: c2b7c0bc91752f9ba89691239cd01a4fdd3c4cfb141e340a12ebafc2444da65f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the document contains numerous links pointing to various domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful external sites, aligning with phishing or malicious redirection tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://greenlandpark.com/uploads/files/4259771306.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.swaving-stalinrichting.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60135538639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oa7nl7dmced30canb06eg08jv6/kulizovaxanirinalazowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seosanhrd.com/userfiles/file/93241850352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/rapunupomupuxipomokuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttc-investco.com/img/files/30539611551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-junghan.com/userData/board/file/wepebeleturoxuzobuwitoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613804c992823---vapojate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agape4u.org/userfiles/file/zubunuparoronubujivatun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuatoyen.com/uploads/userfiles/file/10562062228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6baf8161d62732a017f0b0dd2c755909/9398985059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.museopizarra.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51671479345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/2021913029468398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://streathamtaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/46530501186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitepalacegrill.com/userfiles/sogarenipomitonamejij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifesmart.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52057095259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwfinlay.com/uploads/files/22238142558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agilesolutions.in/uploads/36393985700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wcsps.com.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gokawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coastalstudio.com/images/main/file/gogemikemuveditafekofotan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140919a60534---47434573727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bd4a16733e---17810454206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongthamphucthang.com/images/news/files/587177082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://officinedesign.it/userfiles/files/xiwesidunejopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=where+is+photo+recycle+bin+in+androidPDF 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_off0000eb02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB02 18364 bytes
SHA-256: 75d337e2edefcc3a9f04d8ccd200de8c64c6afdff9bf593950e8cd581acefc0b
font_01_sfnt_off00011a94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A94 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 1d2684deb9e4bc64659fa210006604c9bc1db1e893e5d2f4c3a06d77e9300eab
font_02_sfnt_off0001336d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1336D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1