Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c04e0d0b8ac3491d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-09-24 20:15:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9ff157fe759ba0b720d1d2d076c3f0e4 SHA-1: 7066735f7586641a7e42cb07ba38c6ec3b116494 SHA-256: c04e0d0b8ac3491d31a4a21c38dc107b4296dc609738c836d54e33aeb64bd1bb
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Numerous embedded URLs point to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613526f4c8f42---penabosexewebubusevuri.pdf
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614095d929e22---42409543405.pdf
    • http://sprinter-lab.ru/content/File/kuzowopupa.pdf
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144fcdb16563---82493168427.pdf
    • http://alhambra.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/20230037525.pdf
    • http://tcyy88.com/userfiles/file/2021091723534573499.pdf
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148c0f56d06e---30425143991.pdf
    • https://valkexclusief.reviewz.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/68070923812.pdf
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f1932b79b40966fafd7c709fd493091/96380243841.pdf
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146a8503a3d1---69826523695.pdf
    • http://www.psychophonie-tarbes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47709816879.pdf
    • http://solis.altrodesign.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85546183800.pdf
    • http://umhouses.com/uploads/files/49783964454.pdf
    • http://winkeleninzundert.nl/uploadimages/files/gosobobaxuxotu.pdf
    • http://www.anapharmata.hu/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/forubivipefozekujo.pdf
    • http://hoanggiaphatland.com/uploads/image/files/wewemixej.pdf
    • http://chieucoingason.vn/files/41507312649.pdf
    • http://karate-talence.com/newsite/userfiles/files/87338020850.pdf
    • http://geotersrl.it/file/10621380900.pdf
    • https://sabagdasarov.ru/upload/file/70009686163.pdf
    • http://kristiankutschera.de/userfiles/file/lovekesuz.pdf
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-6/20210906110643389020.pdf
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140b756486e8---11624544221.pdf
    • http://sictombbi.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18337745005.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=gold+rush+download+apk
    • 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_off0000b287.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB287 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca99.bin
03ae3c700a21269adb4cadfd947e367803bd01f88cd9f936fdbc2b78c24cfed0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA99 16840 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f638.bin
b11904308b18d8c1e30c60bbadc2a86067b19da9a1e88d68cc9a5f1a5101f1ca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF638 10484 bytes