Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d1197fe50be4a63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 04:10:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: dfac225e922fb3bdbb43cba613cd3616 SHA-1: 5f05861926aed714e9795bae113ef85d7c5c8fc2 SHA-256: 0d1197fe50be4a63ed1181faf59dee8e44dfaab81f5278465e16092a15673cf3
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 and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs confirm a pattern of redirecting users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed82ca15d3---rixinowolep.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a70a4adbee6---zezesitew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa25222049c---85747427482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7912316d86742936fabb5c3bb1b9e95/18320969227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf0e6aaacc---48537983884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://textingrights.com/userfiles/files/bedugisez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be828ec6a25---kusafig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ivfk74ff1ickki2r9eeubk2ab3/30650128326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e199cc8542---13896974875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/022ac7e207e531f6fd84600016459653/19328191766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigandtallking.com/userfiles/file/98799746979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qookgggh5vsoere2ki4k1co170/negopas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/midikil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cz-synergy.cz/data/file/somefatati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylincinarli.com/fckfiles/file/36267234726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aps-mes.com/files/file/xabedokevofimebeninusagot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d582ec6506---muviwizidiwevorizag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/85443730807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071742215b3c---96195004492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fea7f235548e7c9a054c16f4ac006c7/rekujoxutanokutose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28daff0436eca3ebd1aa61b5690ec040/57696093285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f283df96945402deca096b39919ba480/38677579963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2553df01f0---pifom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd4d40de540---26992839433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4974be0e67---romoroxawus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=base+and+superstructure+summaryPDF 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_off000124e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124E6 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 9ca7aad63fbac7addb423c1721cd3612684dcfbbde28eb62cb524d463aae8311
font_01_sfnt_off00013d71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D71 17392 bytes
SHA-256: 0322cc68dc9b896e5fe051bb2ab236698c8454d79bdb19c34efde9f03c8534c6
font_02_sfnt_off00016a81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16A81 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1