Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a0c225834a49e6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-08-17 18:07:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b87c63d127d490488d3b35a3cac26265 SHA-1: b963d9d9a22b06443082202345ace4a0c2286d04 SHA-256: 1a0c225834a49e6c424ae1527283c9a5dbd8119dd6ae3809ceb35468cf9cf122
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. These links likely serve as lures for phishing attacks or to distribute further malware payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d602daa4a3a---10340065962.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hifi-markt.eu/kunden/kronhardt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ziketajukosojosapesod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futurepoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mejisubudamifotanenur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mardeestilos.es/fotos/file/91120289515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bugaboo-buffalo.eu/UserFiles/File/69675288273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ebd46d51e0---mukibawokomirobubawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paoladebenedetti.eu/userfiles/files/72261462891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bataretak.com/img/files/file/xopeziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akwarella.pl/user_uploads/file/fujiduzimiguzomujawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.biz/userfiles/files/dodowowirasope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacda.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/esa3fillcb5rdse6oodpj8g654/27824101237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4ea733f251---72400032185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/45987607041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/491f03b91f101cb1cc7743f52591bb91/nawodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stensoproject.com/userfiles/files/64956904557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860348c8a1c---35063869382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091b61c1cfb2---dejariluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scanclean.bg/upload/ckfinder/files/vufexoxugidubimitoxeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd721c9a396---84381488067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161143a2603844---benov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dilipprabhavalkar.com/images/file/85773844774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fhkdbjq79el7bjitkb26s9f3nj/47050215558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://derfo.info/resimler/files/mezage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fe1091d98d---pupuxagonanubesisifan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+much+do+respite+foster+carers+getPDF 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_off0000f0fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0FE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010910.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10910 17128 bytes
SHA-256: fc89762fa31797656d1bf35e84086d7514f9e8ef20695e97adbd17a84d5a7bc6
font_02_sfnt_off00013598.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13598 11092 bytes
SHA-256: b0c3a76c0c8f854146776de69439aa18a25ca102f3a2c2eed109550aa07fd32c