Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2bb83863180684c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-07-01 16:47:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: d7eb44838d181f77ce4d05618e7f5f49 SHA-1: ce9d95a151bf8f97a0f423fa48d05d75cdb8079a SHA-256: c2bb83863180684c2251301744d0e17dd0db13b5f25f9e58769de112b740e709
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure of the PDF itself is designed to lure users to external, potentially harmful, resources.

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://schokozentrale.de/idata/sadugufalenilopalenuziji.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fg910ovj5q9d1mt0rvgg5kcf51/95211782962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/bosebigufupoletokivan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad86cc5edc0---55798189466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferado.vn/userfiles/file/69813941945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47bfaf92da36a7afc7d39e45affe781a/15728691934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/18278656150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42n45bqmcloq4dvti6a47s0p4s/kogefabizupegujudavojek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71c6e8de6851d90fc7d50d30f1500e36/jisusirezoxuriferunovinaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rubivina.com/Images_upload/files/70223061018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexsrmenchion.com/clients/b/bf/bf5401b25fe3457642f5a6f1150d5537/File/dagegabarad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://its-bulgaria.bg/files/file/buwizipusanenanosuvuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be7ef938aebffe907cd717d658d4de3f/gimugutufakuwivumezerepal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n2nlah.org/UserFiles/file/6885651100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qcl74apfr02oj312hhf7g1dl8s/83243011018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2b16110485b376eda73f43666d33346/72589925181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e56ea6b4b8---vedanotipufodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b75222ec18a062b095e7fe12f388d85/fatejimokis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/41380874465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078be59081b7---litawowotovinoluvapodosim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kagoshimakojintaxi.com/userfiles/file/22963551956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd397d26a2a---87769928791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaac6f2303a---zarukuwefuretumogijotaxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=b+arch+in+iitPDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f06bcd818d8cd4e3f60f8dab4ed63c5/burimorotanebegidakiwe.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_off0000e7ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7ED 17484 bytes
SHA-256: c6548d284e0a10c5a41cd822f870501f186f0ca941e139ee5d19f596292ee65b
font_01_sfnt_off000115e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115E0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012df6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DF6 9916 bytes
SHA-256: 8174daab5a5f110fa8596db730ef136fb7e97c1f9c80dda76ab0f363051823e1