Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2c1a205a70034af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-09-27 02:29:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4653df05f1faf9fb4293f525e6629f36 SHA-1: 3d8de7e99653ee418f721d0e936e625e09401f37 SHA-256: c2c1a205a70034afa3670741b7a5c0de22c201311a7a587879c584ce41725363
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristic firings strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=emulateur+smartphone+android+sur+pc
    • https://vas-vill.hu/userfiles/file/53896712809.pdf
    • https://maria-galland.ru/files/file/vemobitexuz.pdf
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ntejuoaf94hdgnl2dmlvfqu476/84133372218.pdf
    • http://jedwines.com/cmsCart/upload/file/sizasiwejiwurokebifi.pdf
    • http://bestbuyfromindia.com/userfiles/file/sorilupalomemutukir.pdf
    • http://hb1004.com/userData/board/file/tilexobunanegafosegam.pdf
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614d6f8653d6e---joridosopani.pdf
    • http://nuovojob.com/userfiles/files/97075919236.pdf
    • http://m-camper.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bejatakuk.pdf
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/45015100935.pdf
    • http://www.syrahresources.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46299941313.pdf
    • http://themadthinker.com/temp/vinney/HTML/userfiles/file/55047582538.pdf
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149df9d8291c---57690829746.pdf
    • http://www.pes.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mexezasajamero.pdf
    • https://przyklejki.pl/userfiles/85448883414.pdf
    • http://morecoredesign.com/images/imageUps/files/84358457070.pdf
    • https://war-old.its.vn/new/userfiles/file/95874456274.pdf
    • http://robedecreateur.com/img/files/kixonowejip.pdf
    • http://papienbanana.com/user_file/file/93303758345.pdf
    • http://thuephotocopytaihanoi.com/upload/files/mewubujel.pdf
    • https://vmgeducationtrust.org/home/vmgedu/public_html/public/userfiles/file/zoxezibolad.pdf
    • https://webaprint.be/img/file/18898238149.pdf
    • http://dietmoiquangle.com/webroot/img/files/kurasevaxozukesomamub.pdf
    • https://kcharp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54668746048.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b309.bin
d7bf5fb379416a1f7fce75e426d3b040e6c44c011215d074e29fb22868310927
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB309 16628 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dce5.bin
b223423e316334c8d0dd6ac3fa2d05f5b4859a1f0e38e758cfc15a1d57cbc48c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCE5 10864 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f5bd.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5BD 16792 bytes