Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0cf7e93b2cbed521…

MALICIOUS

PDF

109.8 KB Created: 2021-07-02 04:10:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 14c7441febb9984870acccdb834ab5eb SHA-1: 1c580d591f1081c86db41586ab1422ae8a39ed12 SHA-256: 0cf7e93b2cbed521a4a51ffbc927266baa141824f5e141d713c829ecd9455318
156 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. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. Although no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://dejavuruse.com/userfiles/file/vubizekiluzokofovo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://budapestpainter.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lakimefojimovupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whiteelephant.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d554d79501658c241f67d8ef0af01ff8/84559757320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pozitron-s.ru/userfiles/file/kojurokevulerem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15807736bd040e1ec34c7c7f3d7b399d/fepezorekapobawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9umlr84ldvlu5m7jli44drr486/76020304508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubin2000-distribuitorshop.ro/userfiles/file/69312418007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointsourcegroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da3f46d6dda1bb5989af19fd6185beda/49528319329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f426ca9db845932e925b908ebdbdc11d/98565578618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q6q9nk5j1kup5d5n57hk063hn2/6759024678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/319d60f4eff7c6bba310977c53e86729/warovamoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4de7c5a4ef4bad59ddd14a5f64d134d/82502622563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriciobanados.cl/upload/file/In PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/37085191805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b734424eabb---39402954997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fd356a71c2---6849223615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d8c768450---rumovimiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=tollywood+2018+moviesPDF 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_off0001498b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1498B 10676 bytes
SHA-256: b99c014ec62359eb669fb7265ce03313d7d773e6e0708e151f482ec80a44773a
font_01_sfnt_off0001622f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1622F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00017a41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17A41 18468 bytes
SHA-256: 166e00c7d5d9aa97fed7f1880c07572be2f3e17910e26e0b09e42b357d1f0c2d