Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2efc9c390316127…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-09-13 00:31:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 176d68c7233c29f8e5c74cb74b25bf25 SHA-1: f74a0d8d99e080b23c8c9815fbf146966b875b85 SHA-256: c2efc9c390316127b4d5c73932dd3143be050b578a4725ab60d61e80767b467a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm structure strongly suggests an intent to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9940

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://speak82.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/jijiponivajenefuzadagivo.pdf
    • http://vnationwide.com/userfiles/files/bogevuporikitiz.pdf
    • http://staropolski.net/Upload/file/80550649520.pdf
    • http://ark-mr.com/data/home/qxu2063190031/htdocs/uploadfile/files/zitabowamepufer.pdf
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vbif984fsqjcrssjva85tarno0/sesafubusil.pdf
    • http://tincorner.vn/uploads/files/susujopozorus.pdf
    • http://budapesticukraszdak.hu/userfiles/files/3912986131.pdf
    • https://er-cardiff.com/eurostyl/photos/file/37174890771.pdf
    • http://textingrights.com/userfiles/files/18981420092.pdf
    • http://signauction.net/userfiles/file/bepinuxavomuxo.pdf
    • http://inphilong.com/upload/files/55795409827.pdf
    • https://coopinproject.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gomovozatupigonemune.pdf
    • http://abcgsgeds.friendship-match.com/upload/files/rirudeketi.pdf
    • http://sbsinternationalschool.org/userfiles/file/20440325386.pdf
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1ce3a47d123b644eaf1385c9117f5dd/46877752371.pdf
    • http://montpellier-business-plan.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/sirapebijatovudabanud.pdf
    • https://renfrewareahealthvillage.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90569914671.pdf
    • http://it-hair.com/userfiles/27529025458.pdf
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d63b7e5f11---sadujavozexosolat.pdf
    • https://transdeliveris.lt/userfiles/file/sobubemukilumufivufuwaso.pdf
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136682ea7541---nolibibi.pdf
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/jakefejik.pdf
    • http://kahounova.cz/userfiles/file/33930555045.pdf
    • https://cezartravel.hu/userfiles/file/85414625183.pdf
    • https://ww150007.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210911164311.pdf
    • http://czyxchem.com/upload/files/regarumikozizuriradesonap.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=download+black+panther+free
    • 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_off0000bc36.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC36 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d44d.bin
757d586489a7a94e75709eba6f38731563abc85b4eb3f9f00bd1e94f5741d697
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD44D 10776 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ece0.bin
24f8921e21f710f9016c88a6cd91d4b1d2fdd7f5acea2f62d243a29848837534
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECE0 16556 bytes