Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0316717f4ea3d35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-07-02 00:31:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 43e6979af326aea4117c5f778a91299d SHA-1: 5dfa2f7801537bb6acb7bee69a6c52ae319f1d46 SHA-256: c0316717f4ea3d350c97364741bd44519575b05d2667a4e715addc79e9244612
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9829

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://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c6366c047---tetebabe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aamdqpfpr.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/12175987884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltssinternational.com/res/wysiwyg/file/13626070500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/18090683798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjsprt.com/uploadfile/file///2021053003324295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160760f1537b73---99840020166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93fdjud3cupmbrjndhce2h0a6d/64706239143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a911841de29---fofijexemipigemiluxitasir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0f793d9feeeb22246af2c90bdd6a66e/sowof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vladjurnalist.ru/archive/file/7264745299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6vl3k1hunputi7uk2a80rac2do/tokiluzenabas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098f1c891eb2---28185000899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hssipm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbf56e65a4c8c53bed3e9685f5dc2a07/dulusepirujavukotefiner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bwc.lt/i/94933420090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnafarms.com/clients/864068/File/bizawojasimekejavosil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciskmv.com/css/file/pefitane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a56cd0972c4---35157557026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9be3a487399bb78bd9c3a5e564e11b3/11882544652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonekarusa.com/contents//files/sokaselotebowesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c82466707c559695cb9a75392b5bebac/lerobelariba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blatt-gruen.ch/files/96048707558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wrhs1967.org/clients/6/61/617565fc8afb9cc6d18abf932d248b7a/File/vulobebogomanebowov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ppuhperspektywa.pl/files/edytor/file/womozafonarebakila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160917631c67f6---fipebugetosinikibutosedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2ifapf2sb7qj6j9fugsefa0a9/84114230793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160930f39009f8---lerixapovaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=4+letter+with+xPDF 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_off0000cf08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF08 17140 bytes
SHA-256: 61f4895316b3a65f2267246eba3c527bf9c228e1060ffdd0abd92c35d4b91c64
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBC0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000113d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113D6 9820 bytes
SHA-256: a3d41188c3ac398813b4a93f4bac146c0c43e02b09fa23994a403c9a5a650bf6