Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04cda88bb67dd884…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-06-13 00:10:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: eaa72e1693da3668d2026d25ff978b2d SHA-1: d6a103e22c8cc06081e7c1c72ec2987c9a3db3a8 SHA-256: 04cda88bb67dd8845c3e6701c45fd41fc043659148da7e3c8a87da3a57564e87
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to external resources, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=destiny+knot+sun+and+moon PDF link annotation
    • http://creptiles.dk/userfiles/file/10991411649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingenermarket.ru/userfiles/taridegewukegejitozuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://energooptima.hu/upload/File/19980898130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cf2f9bc984---gizogodemejas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc6sq8oo7k7b348p27cnvu8gbv/86834533037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b194a31d9b8---21473497987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfe.hk/userfiles/kozoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081eb852f819---35526634549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa25b8da73---95998001678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7gp91cvroak00f6qe6h191987/8481186921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vkhr2o4kh7v7t4e1moe4d677rg/51381673458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8081f53691efef8cab43b36b58b595c8/zubibopazekuxosiparirora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lokl4fk0oqc693g43hfbjr9pe7/10490585289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f38c0bfff34b489898c55becba89f6ac/440732581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0aefa7ff4f3017a093fb1d5cebe7d32/3742409386.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_off0000f078.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF078 5008 bytes
SHA-256: 8c5cbc8079ff5191f2d4a81b32e15654cdb836b74c4b3204adc6c0818551e31f
font_01_sfnt_off00010186.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10186 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2cd8b8589d73c8de5aa5a472732882b0391782e9bc22d3255f047ee5720278