Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 216c9c4c6d7ce395…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 12:59:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1c3e92cc14ba33414dc0b40d17743b04 SHA-1: c1817d1cb0cd7f760e97d046b79b284acb6014df SHA-256: 216c9c4c6d7ce3952019f2cbed2b95b4311da3764b1093d21a020f7b4b4247cb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to obscure malicious destinations. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a downloader or redirector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9804

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://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608044704b232---7397383790.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc1f0cnodojolls6m54b1mhmpn/71301707491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easternsheep.by/app/upload/file/35640540740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hgrn037h3l86pm8rvf00bm29km/gawidirutegivolediduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paddockj.com/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/9066810065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43b5b24878---viwizifulonujifesemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853f454006b---tirolepem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cmqkbk1ag63kagojfoavp4r9t/55479037188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9baceecc2278aaa5669d7c74e3858891/35629111976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073c92fd0d63---bozukufobubaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beergolfers.com/blog/images/file/nujasuxasot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-22/20210522031524985596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/446943378639558fc5deeb6e94f5a9ae/zapalivonezeborotawijezab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a46d81d51215f4625f2d70ac5d9eb3e/81655338827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songiadahoaian.com/upload/ck/files/gadojamifura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zerosquareonline.com/file/78046698180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmkaudit.sk/101/upload/file/sozugabawikevogofiset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karpzbeldowa.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/rezepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/88294535665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asacnfservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/retazivapaporavizegubik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13eb69b9bc6244cb3b7c5b0eb17b67f1/mewufugewulegofosaviso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/838a68810e7e931899e342dda76250cf/fujibevafodogufojiralabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cancercareresearch.com/userfiles/file/turokumuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768d069e299---63249585325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hengtongrongshang.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210821052040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenvalleykerala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kokufitexulidufofodux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=apoptosis+pdf+indonesiaPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c175.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC175 10324 bytes
SHA-256: a8d0374e0f3fe83459a99ebfa3b825308ebadb05f55295a66c2378d9d5f120dc
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0F5 1840 bytes
SHA-256: e11639021ae82bc81d66597892112dbefd7f2cb67f426bbebb6fc3c29591e729
font_03_sfnt_off0000f998.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF998 17780 bytes
SHA-256: 7dd561a6dce8c4ad1efb0e2f4bdd08e4bf09a477833e4d532c584b01fa18a367