Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2cb90a356bfebd6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 04:51:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a1833776a4e0f628c76e785b15a6d21f SHA-1: eb8d249aa0b592aef6a7318ba323049ac11a9626 SHA-256: c2cb90a356bfebd681a02e734ffc63d37be229179cbd98e8518921d00ac58fa8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The file's structure and URL patterns are consistent with a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=watch+true+lies+online+vodlocker PDF link annotation
    • http://andreuma.madteam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tumugadefixagobujid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143124cc0e29---sezison.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euro-m.si/web/dokumenti/file/sarenusulajaxojawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://illinoislivestock.org/userfiles/file/mirumovegefadini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w.radeton.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kemalelel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161386703465b9---supepenimamibumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongkhomica.com/upload/files/gakedirit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scout-educationguide.com/userfiles/file/43818297539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalimati.in/userfiles/file/garefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36e34b431336841c41bc5723dee3fe6e/85149700559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homecareangels.ca/files/files/files/29518055650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioioto.store/upload/files/palixajalorekiwolum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptownherndon.com/uploads/files/10088613504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mollis.rs/files/72365133637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vadihosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/23848839683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foodzipo.com/uploads/userfiles/files/92607138524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03a6637864f882cbe59f6d4b55a37233/7249177387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maggievanostrand.com/uploads/media/file/sinerixupofozada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantemails.com/userfiles/file/1630521281zozodilefezuleniso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bighost.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/56746043384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobonvino.com/userfiles/files/59729445328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isystemlab.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63649379809.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_off0000d4a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECBB 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 02eaa32321814bb48c98e1c2493a0c85aa32f96baab5bf800070f15d4a089646
font_02_sfnt_off00010556.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10556 17844 bytes
SHA-256: a2c420458324f46377f91c8731d6b725c4073f06c16e17bd23c09e0767d48645