Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c4de1941c4ef7f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 07:23:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 19ad77edaab275e891dec58a0bd550a5 SHA-1: 7b0dfeaabd68bf728c18781b3165cc1c1a1b2d0f SHA-256: 0c4de1941c4ef7f0df8b23af0e357b06afa53efee01ae4dd9ad227360d6136d9
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to PDFs hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to direct users to malicious content, likely as part of a spearphishing attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a8e126c52e---xuxamofanoman.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://staropolski.net/Upload/file/bakiwat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xlsferrosilicon.com/d/files/62726368624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecovn.vn/uploads/news_file/56850041072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.accl-calibration.com/login/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tidiwapadesogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a6e8c5b85f05e439b1a7885b449f405/70944860577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/webosasomolasokinas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosurfest.com/userfiles/files/poregatumezujofoberamam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89b8950b589ddd74e38b4f660831399c/fobaronon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e107e84b80---39839850312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://live-lessons.net/lcj/web/uploads/assets/file/27682656336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmost.pl/userfiles/file/tewatadetiziwuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointsourcegroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e486fdbab5118b05e853eb2976978a6/27586700608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.premiumtrade.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/depazofokemubukejexera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e5a04c6af---xumewaxebutowejixubusuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dc10089bab---32306081879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parquessolaresdenavarra.com/userfiles/files/xizivalasuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/26056192825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindergartenhelden.at/upload/file/89428355516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161219696e12fb---84762283470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uhorder.com/upload/files/21288207463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb07f26694e5e2754849a6b2a0c2c99d/kavemilanirorubajizutetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimosusto.eu/userfiles/files/sidiviwome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b5s3ifq9e8j5l3favt9dnhvrf/11200492574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarklawtexas.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/69604410202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/djsb4juacfi47e1utl4red5ud3/55807450894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=american+bully+merle+for+salePDF 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_off0000ee34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE34 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 298eed33781f9d72fcb67c14319d64ac156cd4b338e692f4f4fbeae98a753c5a
font_01_sfnt_off000106dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106DC 18060 bytes
SHA-256: c41f2d8c73e92f9b7ae9d879ebafb317bece8c0844451338cb1f26e828d3054c
font_02_sfnt_off00013639.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13639 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1