Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c1501f70a48d02a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-07-13 04:13:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ca60ee065fb935386cd8d2015bec93b8 SHA-1: 3676a9d9b6863a719bb1ea37a00b130dc138e297 SHA-256: 0c1501f70a48d02a0332eab6cba03069f709d6f4a31dbca6245f23767ee684c7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The heuristic firings related to link farms and compromised CMS uploads further support this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=empathy+in+malay
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b22a32a7704---8249819250.pdf
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/63782323662.pdf
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8573e4d374e9142d78efaad3ba087a31/bisefekijopuzata.pdf
    • https://riolospettacoli.it/filesUploads/file/wuvomuk.pdf
    • http://extracam.es/app/webroot/arxius/file/55385365619.pdf
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ib8ljlu5i71v4vuqcv7smcsoo/sipuro.pdf
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160745af843cd6---toriponi.pdf
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a93b8520fb7---dapubepowedo.pdf
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088b1927f85b---majorilimasel.pdf
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18287adab05db03eab597d811ee9eca5/vazirakeji.pdf
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eea7fbf5db---lonolir.pdf
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ebcc8e046d---sofawik.pdf
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f2655182b---38207288135.pdf
    • http://liga-stf.ru/i/upload/files/nuraxipamopetabusurokud.pdf
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0c2ucjdeie5veojerehti6uaa/rizigusowake.pdf
    • https://xn--80aaijzh9b.xn--90ae/documents/file/gugulujivolilat.pdf
    • https://saatyapi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/28136559810.pdf
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160757ac8a2609---kilukosu.pdf
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e0acccda55---sedipubob.pdf
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3670da005b---15139784239.pdf
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9724ccfb741496f96c3f078de691b5f/wofigonigebuzu.pdf
    • http://hrdiborice.cz/erucom1/files/files/75005914934.pdf
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gpd52liqb7pifpehrbp7sh6o95/46884756158.pdf
    • http://smflow.in/admin/uploads/file/pijakigidubigux.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f7a3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7A3 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010fb5.bin
c308f1ae397cf117087377ef947e21b540385ebdffc75e4c0a71d9ae4ba3eae7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FB5 17264 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013cd4.bin
c2528c36f3e4fbfa5c20047f4872cedeb95f5e00cb60cc26d83d19aa19c645a2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CD4 10096 bytes