Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2f0e00e63bb129b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-06-26 06:31:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 1f53e6859bafa9abe8768033d8bb465d SHA-1: 94d3ad76374435cfaa1d60c06f09e592ba4d3bce SHA-256: c2f0e00e63bb129bcfa60bf8c91c938cfcefa0545fb0e7427e45312448c1febd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external URIs strongly suggests the document's primary purpose is to lead the user to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=negative+phase+sequence+relay PDF link annotation
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab9747e8810---11880515305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c9d0e3b36---72907685655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11a3c3b7caa18abc49ec0879b539a6fb/62410683782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledins.lv/cms/file/82076785989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t0ttimri6ah6sd1laugbivdlll/gebikeguxerakexufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kasekimi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079cd2c55549---xowuxarake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://say-international.eu/userfiles/file/vababokasokojav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanleyresources.com/images/zesogudexiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd2fd75cfe---50851388160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5bh5mi28pu9omvijbjaavshr1/bivuvezopikufiwuxatuzuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b423221ba9e---polepasarekikipajagagaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bfb42a6191---5337115972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jrsde142p4400et5kfs2bd6up2/xuradigep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4c72dcf1c---25056539498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2c06727ae1---bifubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businesslegalgroup.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sojababifidazasolikikoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realschoolspirit.net/scauserfiles/files/57080721895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eitmedu.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/131163275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.analfissur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a4d253b737---fikabefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3c27285c6b---62131459571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stensoproject.com/userfiles/files/xujuwawix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0f6fb9e327---75991161522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://godparents4tz.org/home/god/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luvaxisezorotufudut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22218557813e6df1fedec500d8419a90/lozogujakoniwufonub.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_off0000d485.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD485 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 500355a53299bed58c3dafb1cc01f05485f3b94b6ecd3e75e1994ab016c19938
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED8A 16900 bytes
SHA-256: 879ab3f786b351a016d2114c8414294006637e2be34eb0daff92d56492e2bc2f
font_02_sfnt_off00011980.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11980 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1