Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0cfcd0490ee76d45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-07-06 00:08:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2e88fae4bee7fe6118b667c66b1fe2d6 SHA-1: c1ace862e584785df975a532da1488c58b3b5083 SHA-256: 0cfcd0490ee76d45ec9e697aa2a857f76a0f4ac35ecd9b2b63098e7fe3d6a7da
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/kufodusanifupidijagenimud.pdf
    • http://amsaneeraus.fi/userfiles/files/fiborowepazunoxorabi.pdf
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160830b2053e65---30181087234.pdf
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00kn32h2gd980vbvkdfgcomdr3/vutakunafiwe.pdf
    • http://tauben-buchmeier.de/kleinberliner-schuetzen/userfiles/files/zukekepefegakutimapuzaxud.pdf
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac82dc5280---42194618973.pdf
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a8ac9cb72e---78108130627.pdf
    • http://speaklifeiamgreatness.com/files/files/perorapopokukakepuxen.pdf
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0aa8c5035---60835700792.pdf
    • https://www.ideaklinikizmir.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c73b58284f---65055037229.pdf
    • http://emke.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6531978251.pdf
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/16093fa9554424---78561370888.pdf
    • https://nnt52.ru/userfiles/file/82258846154.pdf
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d64ee9f705a8ab3ab4cd889ae97a0c03/xinop.pdf
    • http://haciogullari.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/talirepukexe.pdf
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a6dc479cf48c1ec37537403c7ddf989/69127454504.pdf
    • http://westtech1963.com/clients/d/d4/d4250bc21dcbbf02d7f9bc68df143add/File/muletedufenovobu.pdf
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d5a6ae0c34---15964149428.pdf
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822d3f4226a---55920008864.pdf
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c26e03209b---mujabiwuje.pdf
    • http://twfindia.in/userfiles/files/wabefuzap.pdf
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebb2d1a32d530a607c494c69c6534d38/medegudegigevik.pdf
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/dajelavumo.pdf
    • https://fertilizerproductionprocess.com/d/files/88051230807.pdf
    • http://www.heksan.com.pl/file/nojixovuratejepojanas.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=ratio+of+hydrogen+and+oxygen+in+water
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ea2f.bin
10ae41665b945030934d244a0df9d230c35b7814add8151d94208a25d1ac1685
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA2F 19540 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011d03.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D03 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001351a.bin
37616c5044793f3cb97a37eae52074ea6d37638fc8ebd93d916d9f5f73592ff4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1351A 10764 bytes