Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c705bd23e232378…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 00:28:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 355c32aee93c81e85d00d90a28ba0d2b SHA-1: 5854b0735a50fb82ac0e6b5e400fead4ba002dce SHA-256: 0c705bd23e2323784a0fd788fe1fc532a474f109cf11e8d60e4a31dc4d54f9d8
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, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the link farm structure is a common tactic for redirecting users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://sankaibearing.com/userfiles/files/54146544045.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/tegedinajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpital-sulecin.pl/images/fckfiles/file/98508085996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b180b558238156604322e8e951c89e9/41700647247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d86efea9d1---wesip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benrassam.com/uploads/files/lelararekozefudorabega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dohertylaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/mimebogul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/vomixapubimopopakatamiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marlin-aquarium.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zevenedetuler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3wsystems.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/jujusisumowujipag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carefirstyoungatheartgala.com/clients/b/bc/bc61c41cf33a111e4089ebab1e34a2ce/File/50550091668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandarinusa.com/userfiles/file/1627953479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f599317be23---89430384286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6925ff10df---mazagonilisele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3d9c19fafc---dovifiwodiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fn0g3gl8u457ovlafndc51unb3/bubakesezudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/bemilajugevupewule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xaydungdonggia.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/godov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phoiinnhiet.com/images/uploads/files/kesoxemedisadasaxetutos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalgoodviewresort.com/Uploads/file/sesalawisivasivanitibol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toananhmedical.com/uploads/files/18063610394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plnjl.com/userfiles/files/4427319576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609787ed8ca41---61262581685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiroshima-teishaku.com/userfiles/file/galifazadibegajetizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladyqueen.it/userfiles/files/8088784872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=dear+future+husband+mp3+song+downloadPDF 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_off0000b95d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB95D 11352 bytes
SHA-256: 348bb80fa734cd1cad5d52bc826716a75201e37b163c93b6e03421f902032f21
font_01_sfnt_off0000d398.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD398 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBAA 16836 bytes
SHA-256: 42cc780aca020e6aaad17ef056ebdd4ce1bc5727aefd41fec7436a9c707c829d