Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c40e364db1a2a07…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-08-28 09:41:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: afd215129359e64f1d99338eb3ecd85b SHA-1: e6faa6d4d01b39364a3ec43d666247f3328f1863 SHA-256: 0c40e364db1a2a079cdb763d3ba089dc42fac65b6e3f4a403c5033b86bacfe48
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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 http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7a1951bbe2---pilexuzu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://adasms.fr/userfiles/file/80129507866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rothemtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210703_5C2B1F97741E8449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612650e77f2d8---jojelumuzesupefezake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wtmongolia.com/materials/file/53191530663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/20391361844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a29265bf903---tapotusazotesijosufij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icltindia.in/userfiles/file/81450862889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161136a01553bb---vakapuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dawahcity.com/userfiles/file/noxakaxoxorawekawulukewop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085a58b53f97---zitokaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abakus-routing.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92145571963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aab8aioy.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/keditononiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbbgprpk7biiq.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69247998223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptairsupply.com/userfiles/file/lamodabodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viral-list-machine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/89583357542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccadl.com/files/20210728052111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thsport.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guzadasivanonogop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patronusalapitvany.hu/public_html/upload/83319094519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9937e137da---magiraxepevuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac32ce21582---22438808357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=horizons+student+edition+introductory+french+7th+edition+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_off0000b8b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8B1 16312 bytes
SHA-256: fc17e529d9d1247e33d2bcc45f9745d0eeddf6c47423f6a155f054d739a24e06
font_01_sfnt_off0000e298.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE298 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000faaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAAF 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 6828127eb129a840ba5927931308427ec5e39e2f33d54b8a151739f9d31a7d37

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