Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c7cdd3cf94ccd78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 03:44:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 2f4266da26377254943d1b911824fbe2 SHA-1: 74298c43987b8e90fc986a583221065b64b367ac SHA-256: 0c7cdd3cf94ccd78844931a0a1c3a019618cf63faec42dd1096ede6b48fc4bc5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to trick users into downloading a malicious payload. The presence of embedded JavaScript, coupled with ClamAV detection and ML classification, strongly indicates malicious intent. The URLs provided are the primary indicators of compromise, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080fcdbd90b7---wovuneramexofonet.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://motoquadro.de/userfiles/file/jezopikoxibonulamunin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolit-plus.ru/files/file/14382499114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080dad74ae8b---78437654736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a652803e63a---xerax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/85211292842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cascinamana.it/userfiles/file/futomobaratofolimib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mansiya.com/uploadfile/files/nominojojabadisakemoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cavalier-hundezucht.ch/userfiles/file/jasusuwofelogijedipumob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608392bf5e339---14124927775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartmedia.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/66550846336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ed101ee3c3edd348d98a69c8fbdfa48/36130183885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mimarathi.live/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/39876613529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leads-bd.org/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28038409310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quaretti.it/userfiles/files/77588098951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/697869b84c9e7c084fbbce0b93c13376/wusobufabedenov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dietmoiquangle.com/webroot/img/files/36302661049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djecijagarderoba.me/userfiles/file/86070453175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kham.vn/userfiles/file/nezuvixezedepezeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1f9c150e68---55909807671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lescourailleurs.com/upload/editor/file/lilusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomaszskiba.com/userfiles/file/25305328013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiuanai.com/userfiles/file/pegola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ecb34a2f25b---tipilekamuzuwaxuzadigegob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=federal+tort+claims+act+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_off0000ed91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED91 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 57c52a8b499560d1a6c8994ba629dced07fda90165c5f4afa4974326f1c8280e
font_01_sfnt_off000105f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E09 19560 bytes
SHA-256: 0b706dfaae8106b61c36652b1719f06f7eb6c0ed8abb832201b5bb7381e79e27