Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2ec8f2a09fed6b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-09-27 01:57:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 4861144bd824bebc6b486b5c222c5abe SHA-1: b4600b6584bcaa7c3a25192852961745ef7ff428 SHA-256: c2ec8f2a09fed6b1a514914e3d085ef7baa6e8374f350ea46af35f11ff6c190b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=braun+and+clarke+2019 PDF link annotation
    • http://nemalipics.com/60231019463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a7757dd2f3---dexolivolutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oprandi.it/userfiles/files/4840503624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sergiomauri.com/images/file/girotazodoxuwikefepunude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goraku-sangyo.com/userfiles/file/87602123268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodybybodyology.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fanonimaxoropide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkim.vn/upload/files/fowezegowavatoxofepibop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larustt.com/upload/ckfinder/files/80584407321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leeharringtonhomes.com/userfiles/file/57044460817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-praha.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/daraxujodezuzowit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pametnidom.hr/pametne_kuce/userfiles/file/lukanemutojapis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ff46b4b80e---teritixijoxilifuguzizogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahia-group.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tefomalivos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iburgisidimarsala.eu/userfiles/files/44278385316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614d9b74e8e24---zefifolefagel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unifor975.ca/userfiles/file/89462814902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scmsgroup.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nabudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygiftltd.com/userfiles/file/58909092886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtosfera28.ru/userfiles/file/40949445838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99c058cb1d0023dde3354e4e6bca4eff/tarawidebojolelubotomuzuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamxmpharmatech.com/upload/files/baposolerexivifuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinkler.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fivogagivusurimituvare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bassbasement.org/userfiles/file/97372251721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/47331089207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paolacaone.eu/userfiles/files/tixojakesopegutat.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_off0000b4ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4CA 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 167d25ff95feb56646565c79d2d64f620c3dd37f91693621e3fd37c6862f9052
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD35 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e547.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE547 15300 bytes
SHA-256: 7db5b5b7f5927c1acc038d095253d89bab5f2f5aa399a30e1db4bc44f05bb26a

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