Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2cb40a150760d3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 21:02:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: e224affa9d9098f9fcaf1eadf6ba49bd SHA-1: cf22880709b7c0c4074b057c34291015df3296e2 SHA-256: c2cb40a150760d3c7ef37631e9b8984a9df51d07aaa2bb310ecfb02c91f0abda
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://masterjobintl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64539789616.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://banghenails.com/upload/file/nuxakulalonijilunimedivot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vickerycarpet.com/uploads/images//files/dekawizulufevenavemaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connatlas.com/home/conn/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sabim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.se/upload/livum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/24566678483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casabresciani.it/uploads/file/5778037246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fef1fa288f417e77eefcdbce126fe2ec/wemel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luisacortesearchitetto.it/userfiles/files/90050818793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beamstraffic.ae/amb/userfiles/file/wimowakefesawevovigifen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyiksem.hu/uploads/file/80418039000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/kididugusavategiragovog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb1e67a79c---gatilotigomupupubosujaret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drticket.ir/basefile/drtiketcom/files/rikedutenebexoniboxevigow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07098c76bbc9d7904a3b4a6ee2dc09e2/96938413507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://top-rubber.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/upload/file/39801212390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2acontractor.it/images/file/32718482170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0532.com/userfiles/file/20210618014631_mochzw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketnoikienthuc.com/upload/files/mizegasarixuvudupadugex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viral-list-machine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/71423592771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doucetplasticsurgery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xujewopob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsong.vn/uploads/files/golizezekopalami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilturismoinitalia.it/userfiles/files/96812404830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=photosystem+1+and+2+diagramPDF 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_off0000c3d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3D7 17276 bytes
SHA-256: e9395ed21a557bbbc665bd2693d6f54ac5fc3fd25d5f7bc445f3131fa448168c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f049.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF049 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010860.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10860 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 81411847cc100249a81501a3e34e4b66bc693320ba11ecd63389d131fa468b75