Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c93c6ba2675a286…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-07-15 09:54:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 446113397fa8ceaeebf5b899fffc348d SHA-1: 7efd970b2f0b92f503e8ce2acc6ed4b73bb129a0 SHA-256: 1c93c6ba2675a286a347c7c439c14b491c7038317b46845b51df5d5171356c0b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, identified by heuristics as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d295213b43a39528ca7dbc9e42daa5a/kodezovozutekoxujozug.pdf
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2e105348e6---50158697020.pdf
    • http://mistral-paints.cz/userfiles/files/79725709605.pdf
    • https://aitalk.vn/upload/files/nuxufulifedoxu.pdf
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf662fb6018---13231382361.pdf
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33bbb78086f4247700b1a01ccf1ede73/48278186137.pdf
    • http://brownewingfamily.com/clients/a/a4/a4d7a48ed280e719b438ae57db99af5e/File/josuve.pdf
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///49438780430.pdf
    • http://slp61.com/clients/e/e2/e296dcecfd7d10ffef0cc83fef253c72/File/taxigepipovaxebiduxala.pdf
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d075552788---68845650359.pdf
    • http://dobraukraina.org/sites/all/sites/dobraukraina.org/files/fimukuwanosopiwusiwofi.pdf
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c34d49a5446---71166479622.pdf
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1426353d5e1bd197380a7ac508b64c7/jalomowu.pdf
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb9a6e1202752e31e0fc8846fcbe85ec/tamulatema.pdf
    • https://finances-canada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a8339295ad398aa15050e3b7dcfed88/41013642868.pdf
    • http://cnex.cc/images/blog//file/70472173186.pdf
    • http://grapes4u.ca/sites/all/sites/grapes4u.ca/files/70010565001.pdf
    • https://keongracun.org/contents//files/faximoxal.pdf
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/46357847725.pdf
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qi2dt822e0v9blkcpi3kl51et5/viferobowozikatuliv.pdf
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nlg521hrpl1bv3irtleeuqe3qn/rofowefuzokekipanesuluj.pdf
    • http://bajajsports.com/userfiles/file/62598055939.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=wud+be+meaning
    • 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_off0000b7ef.bin
8a21ea218df69939ac68e90ec0fa2b1b64f3788eb8c8dc98772cd39f7e47a3a1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7EF 15176 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ded7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDED7 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f6ee.bin
1298903e58e1260b44e7d9597cceeee7ee548c2262d0a173e835b73a82737be1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6EE 10292 bytes