Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c4792d106c2d8c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 13:12:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 0ddfb8325690e6f7f8348abdb0632cef SHA-1: 8a8c80f1f51f0431f91e5708ebfac5b16045150c SHA-256: 0c4792d106c2d8c92ed89eabfc6fa461ec7923b401f84ca1843258134c4b7a62
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30585e4a1066f2a12100563390dd4ff3/kabusozu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5f42bcccb57eaeeda5827e37b75e946/83335391063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/timataxabifuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gabrielamaciel.net/images/content/file/75368894676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/19068402143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emauto.lv/index/images/up/file/bajedoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m0d6epltn2gjl7vbqipd6lrlqb/92101056060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jns8iju6ddb83egfoc04tr1mfd/rinaguvigile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bebac7e779a2a348d29506292682df2f/womisunigikixiwirogigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manixcnc.com/ckupload/files/97703620495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soalmatematik.com/userfiles/file/87299060578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1bcc9428cd---74563361703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d6e1ace5c8---79224190561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a2aa9566a2---22406349349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b22346d6b7---26405254321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/295131dd356668fadb9c838920e086e1/sinodunobumitidepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bs49vpc4tgsms3onr6513ffmsi/sapukutenejiviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90b9a9b91f7518779549a98f632e87a5/90883662342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cordovajewelry.com/images/file/86450417340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160913f8066f02---69505160671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608255684b74b---4577473590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09ebba24b55553d66ebca952b2224c23/20010283613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ec7f1208b3b0ee0e55ae4c1adfafa58/valeresego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bualuang101.com/backoffice/upload/files/79799334429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096633a1b357---kukitugisuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=ssc+je+2018+all+shift+question+paper+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_off0000de0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE0D 17200 bytes
SHA-256: 716b7ad5ff696f3f1f340a69d9c7d314912636c3890e8c8689a1ecd042a4e18d
font_01_sfnt_off00010af4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AF4 11672 bytes
SHA-256: e93c4acdbb378a5c8e8f1ed8924874b8fa4995c5fe6e7a5c15e548ce6d071729
font_02_sfnt_off00012685.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12685 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1