Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0e2cb683c4c3ed7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 13:38:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: ffd6aad1beb1d21c034c28c0395bf4e3 SHA-1: c31f61660b19aa47c96427a02fba74c604a54ccc SHA-256: d0e2cb683c4c3ed7a89fba509f07948e0f5f040b78c874f1a9aafea3bfd1187b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://directorvincentchow.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/71789457717.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dacc4373e248d206cbfd147d2f6b1bd5/26952844724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuhongzg.com/d/files/60600429645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f68cb93fe71e6c914de14d14c4a878be/pefiforirubezunofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3fcfc0ec3e54f2a54664e97427424f5/dumegivosukurususefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kochamsushi.pl/UserFiles/file/rabafajutodobixidojokugud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://headlinesdinerla.com/uploads/files/pogezomigujebevewuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35ab6h9kelm8390ne8e0k1ln22/nolegedepap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavalnerina.it/userfiles/file/40806200426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://momentous-inst.com/uploads/image/files/lobarokufukib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezagsecurity.cz/userfiles/nikabaxoligomimafatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hublihorse.com/uploads/userfiles/files/vidatezazinupibowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orbitsecurity.qa/pro_mvp_tech/uploads/file/69274717953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f93of5mmrpc46g695l3ehk3m0/73780832385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamnonkitty.com/webroot/img/posts/files/zuzebofoxatijawawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080af8108674---firidexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlh.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/meneruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a85b14e7445ebe29bafc6c82eccb72fc/foguworikuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpinist.store/sribati/editor/uploadfiles/febok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/91608382566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/458323c5ff332eea25911d78da72dd46/modaserab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilalyapidekorasyon.com/userfiles/file/83857049155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fd6a65786b---87018014794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/49829786676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rentbucharest.net/images/userfiles/34724022024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843e69b891d---34654124237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+apoptosis+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_off0000cae2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAE2 15684 bytes
SHA-256: e63683947350d68188854cf3219c6fb229d47c299a812455cca8fe302339556b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2F6 10208 bytes
SHA-256: 82a6a74c11041dd52354c69ee5520c4cc697bd13eadc4dd82b60712812a64700
font_02_sfnt_off00010a07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A07 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1