Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2db8c0d786a7885…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-16 12:44:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ff2a8f2e99e311e417dab389ae446347 SHA-1: dbce64e9e0ba2f0b30eff457d3eeb0ed99725645 SHA-256: c2db8c0d786a788531cbade87e4d89e19a69b45c0825dda9255e6045157b8949
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites for further exploitation or credential harvesting. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=understanding+digital+signal+processing+lyons+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://gonzagafood.com/userfiles/files/numowagugorujataxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161419bd291f6e---maxabipugadusim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thayloilocnuoctaihanoi.net/upload/files/6829313655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limsurdua.com/contents/files/51463923182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petribax.nl/userfiles/file/19531671288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tentimesneedlehill.com/UPFILE/userfiles/files/rukaxakukopofajadunud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axiomestates.com/userfiles/file/51611527651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141124197f63---wokatome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ombs.ru/uploads/files/zinuraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613502c6766f7---61699640441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationshield.ae/userfiles/files/dabimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livelyway.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuzavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.info/files/file/15762661514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasintorn.com/images/upload/files/13201437462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133b4c32a03f---lenuguwaraku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapelguild.com/images/usr/xosunepovove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karpatskiles.ru/store/file/51993697365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urduhadith.org/survey/userfiles/files/pukolamivuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thetestmag.com/userfiles/files/seluvafibogugurujulesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n0an1p21ipsv69s4aqbgue85kn/27494385244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onelove.cz/file/36069389315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://812423.qqtogeljackpot2.com/contents/files/zuneluwedenewejovipow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masukpt1.com/contents/files/nafidonorupap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaymccarthy.com/immagini/file/43727730886.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_off0000dab7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAB7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2C9 17212 bytes
SHA-256: f55db06db7fb833bd6c7289f669cde9b5a90da1458ec766ade635a9ba0b6ec09
font_02_sfnt_off00011f65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F65 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 22f32458fc4f96ae8dc26110cf8558ea092b0228e91a8eb0fca743e05b9b02bf