Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2cfaf1841e15ffb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-01 00:04:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d0d239695eff578f05dfa37f1672e56e SHA-1: 832bf356d057af55eebd2a7935528c4f043967bc SHA-256: c2cfaf1841e15ffb24213b314c172fcdabb50e6d43eb4b3cef4215e6c69b96e1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=st+patrick+lorica+prayer+for+protection PDF link annotation
    • https://synersys.fr/contenu/file/52786279613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gfpm93mq2ma70l77seqakurl93/sojep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/163fa952747361b7b17e8362c80bfeab/bamural.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medsplus.us/admin/images/file/32694113402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e95e91cabe---4102962597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ace5797abd6---xojefudexatoneziwutupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasvaripalmuzeum.hu/upload/file/vofugep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4207928a31366476724b6c9e2bcc24f1/pobabimetotojaxulixegin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marta-galan.com/files/varios/file/jasonadavexesixuviribu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3befba3e64---36396056444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cb2122e7fcb884f30000c612464638d/20931154609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoretras.com/file/4289999369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c606e91b218---35633415954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yucekalipmakina.com/tsrm1/img/userfiles/file/lalipodinapividubaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duetsepolno.pl/userfiles/file/degatubodavagewudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://299-45.com/CKEdit/upload/files/19348886844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rsun.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fonaduto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8567a07c3e---pomuxubopegukebogefuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096653b0f1e3---66960834478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37d5c8276fa4fafa0961afa7f4bc696c/sakizikesojiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-24/20210524185401119597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bcff728a96---bupujamagomejufinowofokog.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_off0000eaf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAF1 17128 bytes
SHA-256: 1be981184b11ef0d016c1ffc82b28656feead2be5a63e1355a41970dd3e68bf7
font_01_sfnt_off00011776.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11776 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012f8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F8D 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 10350111db2ce5afc1349738095c9aafd413c61178cf43263ee55240e1329017

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