Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0cd746256af03208…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-08 07:28:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 09eb7c8dab76fc84714268769d3e6f3c SHA-1: 726a0a9b9a7f9916ad041b1bdd0c056b5981aa20 SHA-256: 0cd746256af03208f2af5625e140fb2203518ea07d6d51abf842a8e983cc6762
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise, likely leading to further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4a38d94b79---risavumi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lucann.com/Upload/file/pasuvuxisoriman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbcb7336001---86231996224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608300501de9c---puzaruzetenanefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6e437763d3---31606125055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartraoptics.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/31165109736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe3a12d7bb98d5cc0f059523f426f891/xesatasedubukufip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.it/uploads/file/20789492262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160725626c0243---gikuzovuvitolilumug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b97d2e4e07c---bobiduwibisebin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083996955229---wutubarubasavil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tai-group.com/upload/files/pakamupoginaranupaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teraval.cz/res/file/26792582994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d63deff086a---tilopapojajuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b86d178d30c---negesik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guapa2.com/admin/fck/file/65353284583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b64fe00f420e669f5bbe511b7c795fcc/fiseli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/najijidefapufatimuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sendedianqi.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-18/20210718163532116097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429195310948186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16118939c4cb0e---bisabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=effective+utilization+of+resources+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_off0000d371.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD371 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 10da8ade11827475ce22a57bbf8ffd367c0f49a1317db8243e96f54e38d161c8
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC8B 17460 bytes
SHA-256: df40ceda76ddefedaa19de5da02972b9459c11b81ca8c1472508ebfdc53c7ec8
font_02_sfnt_off00011969.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11969 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1