Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c785ece281a11d7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 00:42:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 00fe30fa6c86f917c73756cad0e155c8 SHA-1: e310cefd292b9be0a4cfcf9e4f5db318f073595e SHA-256: c785ece281a11d7b5f0917642ce472d3f55c870fca5d3e57c516b66c5a6976e6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of numerous external URIs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=7th+pay+matrix+pdf+mp PDF link annotation
    • http://hp-cnc.de/uploads/files/8046159711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalipublisher.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dugitolitezupis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungquanghieu.com/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/11149654319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b655c0e57ec---93158615670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://synodradomski.pl/userfiles/file/jaborugiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lws-realestate.com/userfiles/files/fisubaputufaneveped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a54b17754d---jasojomamunejuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gymlesgeants.com/upload/editor/file/bixoviwisejun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aivieksteslaivas.lv/userfiles/file/58407855242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d97b566e0a---nadukisadinumesuxabiluba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelofthewinds.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99342919085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limoride.net/gallery/file/zizejejadisimirurifalabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9262918e7bc54eb34ebc1d9a30292d6/wepefavazakosebosobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrobud.net/uploaded/file/banit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fanaf.com/article_ressources/file/75040595791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gospel-streams.com/asset/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38135186781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dec45005d5a---47039401273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yizhu580.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91920167638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a0f20fd7541e2daa045d6a4e15faebc/40736720629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bobecoingatlan.com/uploads/editor/file/denikaferabagelimarazuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087015ae5955---74530708486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9jeehk7g3cq6kj1aageq0m5hs6/12218874995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yushendesign.com/images_fck/file/1630270660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hglobaltourb2c.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210803_D62D53F82DF0586F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vpn-solutions.com.pe/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rovebam.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_off0000ce87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE87 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e69e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE69E 10364 bytes
SHA-256: f724e0fde3905cf76627b0aca676fec4c1dab90a873fc193a6b89252a54fb397
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE04 17304 bytes
SHA-256: 5bb45512398d0e06d6d1dcdfcecf5692fdd3f7b1110313d1216f38045710c1a6