Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2e36515b84d9fba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-21 01:37:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d54d4cad8043e25acd93fdb8b8642e57 SHA-1: f4dab737954955e5763f19c8057ce106e6526bcb SHA-256: c2e36515b84d9fba8a46e4f7f1095da6da80ab0158fa8b2bb7774cbc891fc6e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://uat2.hkha.com.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38416268375.pdf
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613657781c6f4---49419573470.pdf
    • http://biblioteka-belzec.pl/upload/files/fozomisu.pdf
    • https://carlojans.com/cms/file/20764745343.pdf
    • http://kipia-nn.ru/userfiles/file/puwobonimosurig.pdf
    • http://weforyou.it/userfiles/files/77793953419.pdf
    • http://juditphotography.com/picture/userfiles/file/13339516818.pdf
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/binupawubilarofiji.pdf
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bb3ce63746---dotukapirij.pdf
    • http://tradotel-riviera.com/file/bodamafuferolokujiboxolal.pdf
    • https://allmassage.net/upload/file/20210913200945.pdf
    • http://inbond-cn.com/userfiles/file/3121721329.pdf
    • https://zilalcooling.com/other_files/File/49147130516.pdf
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/sizonogajopakaxonakemo.pdf
    • https://safarekhoob.ir/basefile/safarekhoobir/files/zofajumalisogiwuxorajowo.pdf
    • http://tea-ra.com/user_data/upload/save_image/files/29458176565.pdf
    • https://etest.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/56381614856.pdf
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e927c7d3c3fb7817bac2aefafb951d39/56298272676.pdf
    • http://autobedrijvenindex.nl/images/uploads/xudekomudemelusujepenok.pdf
    • https://orrizon.ru/images/file/29599776418.pdf
    • https://pnvvr.ro/userfiles/file/64763197150.pdf
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146179b0ffbe---kabuzer.pdf
    • http://ayhancevik.com/images_upload/files/55869927182.pdf
    • http://budaikepkeret.hu/uploads/file/50600545721.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=bluetooth+hack+software+for+android
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d366.bin
091282ea471005cf305617ddd4b5d993e7e45f565621f05302e69c1814172688
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD366 18844 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000104e9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104E9 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011d00.bin
b14fd829541db9e9b0f61a90e4d3acc315bb951f6d8c33e1556645f08032e4dd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D00 10904 bytes