Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c85b46b2ff27d200…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 22:24:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 264180f9085bb79a1eee41bdd2a44576 SHA-1: 92f1777036fb2b5ce42ca7aeb3719d37bc80eb62 SHA-256: c85b46b2ff27d200ca1cebe076af5726779034ad751750f41cb0c8335c584c94
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm with multiple URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tcc31l6461f9qv3stbgb13a2h5/xefizewuzug.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://unnatiwelfareorganization.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79482399972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trevelci.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kelemosetebazozagigekuviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chip-chup.hu/upload/file/74235401568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb179486f098dd28709c68c26e9365ec/81135847606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrabl.pl/www/rpbd/fck/file/36848649718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwbaltimore.com/uploads/files/72158821915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pawsandtiaras.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jopaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ec6a2a0d6f---79410642603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacie.vn/web/uploads/files/39968762405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinpointfeedtech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85777844840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7350b5e51c5da3d4b4c1efc2d544d532/90364696886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supermagnum-bg.com/userfiles/file/19453234288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isleford.com/filespath/files/20210803053639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ufbd2nvrolssh8oeno9aor9jv2/rolurovup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bancodevida.com/bancodevida/admin/images/image/file/xutusoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701ea4a50fd---93748960527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scalper.ir/data/files/file/zogatit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/72502783072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bf036c5c591b4dd17cd66abd61a3598/nunagigiterofajazev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felicityokolo.com/file/12595631500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9fcf234c6a6038aefbc404764d32023/nogalikalipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210612065447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=i+c+engines+by+mathur+and+sharma+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000b30b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB30B 16920 bytes
SHA-256: 9bec278cea4655dc900341ab9cb093dd79f63e0d372ae9fbfc99017dd3e40639
font_01_sfnt_off0000df02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF02 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f719.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF719 11208 bytes
SHA-256: a6fc3ee0fce49137db147f3a8da26df2c8648ec20f651de88d9abb9a2e51992a