Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c1615c55cc8720e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

270.0 KB Created: 2021-06-28 23:49:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b7558638d755ae88c49c722730d8b93f SHA-1: 4e39fd231476c7011e8fb134b60a6abaff514da3 SHA-256: 0c1615c55cc8720ecbdaace5c4e67db9f4ef71ab35cf74ec8221964195ada5b0
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of multiple PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a pattern of leveraging compromised infrastructure for distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9871

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://defaico.com/d/files/lunedinupexiwegemugepo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4426d8a05b---19728457534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2p6f23use21pq757g3fer0p36c/92810493180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/gojotamebupusajebozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bet-balance.com/userfiles/file/wigimukuxizafokawetamotap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1a91a699a---85806712579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa8541fb67---risagivefiviworo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3jik8s8k4n02d6d9rvj807gb2/zukenumemedoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f49d1036a7---88545383322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://df-2.de/images/daten/file/11010192212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artospace.com/pics/file/41172163547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brothers-music.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88746143675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eprdel.cz/userfiles/file/gifumevuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9f8474034a---14838653736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marymo.ru/uploads/files/61900793598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bac003dbfc---xuzusepiginorugesajomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba0de00cb2b---38374027089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/2012395399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b690de78592---61983904175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interno-kazan.ru/upload/files/pabazojeriwidezetufiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsstaff.com/uploads/file/64046279386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=3d+anime+fighting+gamesPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0003b37f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3B37F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0003cb90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3CB90 16232 bytes
SHA-256: bf3ac2bbc5511ca59b022801f68684aa2b8ae7661b1a55c6866fed5ae8d27d0d
font_02_sfnt_off0003e173.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3E173 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 5cd67c3bb79ce2950bc5ac47ace99df5db2192b6dee67b4f570e9b8df0eb7c7a
font_03_sfnt_off0003f949.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3F949 18752 bytes
SHA-256: a1822fa7474ea3c19c4a1759baba4ca1655614f287154bb12bbcc401c3510bbf