Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00c8d4582cefb797…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-06-05 17:44:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: a6f9f5c58787d610ebff73ab865c091e SHA-1: 07dea90ef2dcc603b1fbb8260cc7e473f03f0174 SHA-256: 00c8d4582cefb7977da764d5404d482adaa88a615d0de86f8ed6a3890f52c37a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body, though partially garbled, contains a title about dreaming, likely a lure to disguise the malicious intent of the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=que+significa+so%25C3%25B1ar+con+dos+serpiente+amarilla+muerta PDF link annotation
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc25b8813251422101bbbb40612bc102/romasilinofemuponi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ascinfratech.com/clientprojects/trading/file/pubani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.net/userfiles/file/6883833025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edlarbhhbnt7bpvlk4jsuor4k2/jijuxagilalunulaxefoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/921fr50gnvtn4j4c02k73pb80q/sudapejebogadijixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d97baec13a---gajemarejibuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/remiwusomep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darec.sk/files/files/67429045496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1997af6ab3abfd732e8e9472113d3fe6/53371608485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160970ae9c22c6---43808248507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/scnqrp4i2dshb5eliioqg2hhg8/26435314527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084c58c53ced---gukowitopevoxoseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e41b2bc58---xugiliraluzulorakes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6e1e03e29e---vobavikobepivogebiwego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/wolida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ed2eb1ebc---difewoduzinodobewovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d6ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6CA 5748 bytes
SHA-256: 1b8155dc5c12328aee7de211b034c641e17544f61c2550ceba713b1fae99d372
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA09 11696 bytes
SHA-256: bc0f98f40db178e0ca4743041666ce20457b85dfb95d787f70d52aecab9f6b6c