Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2c2f6b38f413844…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-07-31 22:58:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: f3e78c313ef9811dfaa7da7011ff9505 SHA-1: 7add37df77719cd53b634e530f5c65e9cbbd992d SHA-256: c2c2f6b38f4138445e98acf1955634982229a966e26a655cabcc4b6299664614
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics identified the PDF as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs, while numerous, are primarily used to redirect to these compromised or suspicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://acronimocostanzo.com/userfiles/file/lejafuritofofobape.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac67f9e4907---4949358438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fd74fd9fc9---35115324280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091bac0ce292---70003402206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://55pluscommunityspecialist.com/userfiles/files/wisuposijafemeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/090976789c7101d39b235fb50615f06e/seridufapudigowarenefidov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/rikuvodilibuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.corazondelsol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/giwibufesisobagikisunem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070cc7edb3b7---16149224450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8jl66i98t74f9rphbjkg6u3pe7/naxilimogofim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aab85fcda24---zuzetok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2e67a1174c5268602ae0a9ae945a3f5/tamuralibufuxowategujanot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samuiluxurytravel.com/Uploads/file/dokobotatibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/zubaxeratigovuferusotod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a57359d2c8f---38976378269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/jubajobeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090c7b0b5ea2---74168366766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c715f53c1e9b2569e4e60f107ab6da71/ferozipisijivun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roofmed.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073bf8f6e859---juminatudoxepiliporewoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bnbtravels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bavos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-isc.com/userfiles/file/11118117690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210601164521318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://se-ty.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/85634888545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cab041e6bb5d1e58e5de75408093393b/16055265318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phsbulldogs1966.com/clients/8/87/87911cb64b10f66d93d15f7b6e22d365/File/33951284962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=qualcomm+atheros+ar9285+wireless+network+adapter+driver+linuxPDF 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_off0000f744.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF744 11916 bytes
SHA-256: 9f96ecdaab8342c6c65eba99e498660d7314ec101d0c308f19b0eb890ef79f07
font_01_sfnt_off000113f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113F6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C08 18692 bytes
SHA-256: bcf0b7d2ab50ca41f6b250ae53d97486a0857522ca18cd3576f8bfe9f4ed301e