Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0472ecf99d68e7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-07-03 15:13:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 65c77b6b1a5c4ec26a4e0f79f15422c4 SHA-1: 38f0f3c6bf787d8839be728e0c6e1070705b55cb SHA-256: c0472ecf99d68e7f55150e98347a7753a2bac45739320d8cc29d0e7b1963af15
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to distribute phishing content or malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=28+day+diet+results PDF link annotation
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/5758707268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/202151952555777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-rivetti.it/userfiles/files/60113924310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d438a4d10---82161146449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e0cf8296e---66328285433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607847f1e000f---jogejipujijamim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f6f9018c34---55999454514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitoursegypt.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pilubuluvemele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a9feed6a5e---vukigaregujenaxuwufumofav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/77099866764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merwepizza.com/upload/file/xodukikagovebituweruranet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609843e78012e---vebosunekezulali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f6b25c7a6427eaa3545f24366238cdd/bisubozinaronaxer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veribase.com/E/file/64933049846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ulatic8stggauai7746840emo4/murozozenowinako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/fewepawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44321370769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessium.fr/userfiles/file/batolosedamifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdca62607a9---gakipadeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095ac0d512f8---vetebebewixukukujafetasar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e396.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE396 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBAD 10464 bytes
SHA-256: e29c43cc014c744a5bab16ceb8ebf6ddc374091069fccf7b655509cc6790c0fd
font_02_sfnt_off000113a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113A5 17508 bytes
SHA-256: 1c357f515564ab59c1f587d44db19449709c37f85fde5984d05b3c9ef4507d27