Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c04fecf4d82cc182…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 10:23:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 77284e53f9c5473d8010acf01e68b01d SHA-1: 61ea640390d3766fdedbaf97e912a8de57c22b40 SHA-256: c04fecf4d82cc182d804c719d69131504bbe2b54ba83cc88cd9d69a524c3a634
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters in URLs suggest an attempt to obscure the final destination and potentially track user engagement.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=5g+physical+layer+technologies+pdf
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a704884b0---kezupuzarojisesajal.pdf
    • http://www.peretprod.ro/content-images/file/zufefugexizu.pdf
    • http://rayanchem.com/d/files/27063810222.pdf
    • https://alteanetworks.fr/img/file/zavorafogowagoloxora.pdf
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbc41f3c664de646a0d79050979ba554/93352796070.pdf
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/3348992579.pdf
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f416d0b7c9e406855758f333313c551/somabemaz.pdf
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b66297ccdbf---guzotobuwagugirinel.pdf
    • http://fw-simple.com/uploads/files/nobaliwokuseduposabab.pdf
    • http://elementsgogreen.com/userfiles/file/dazikefubuwobakuvuzotib.pdf
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160914175ad7c1---suluxiralibipanadaru.pdf
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d18c26cf9---lewutuwipilometik.pdf
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46f37f96034efd8f6c7f6deaa0fdf163/xelamoxisif.pdf
    • http://mid-europe-ex.com/images/blog//file/84759860717.pdf
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609adf0d65fd8---sadakiduxiwevatid.pdf
    • http://polymer-optix.de/userfiles/file/15969525713.pdf
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/355dcae038f74a800a9a6c10b35c9ac9/27270806320.pdf
    • http://solamsys.com/userData/board/file/kemolemusisonagevokupige.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8bb3efcbc---bogubisebozatomij.pdf
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab70333b784---nafunewivar.pdf
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c7273a82c6---wizuxubaxeruvupubisow.pdf
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e20d9f11593e9db53c1a7d54895333a/tuxiludogodexofegonema.pdf
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e146bde7322db19e551eab0b0f32a56/nakexogutepegodolefoxoguv.pdf
    • 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_off0000f2fd.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2FD 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010b14.bin
42a763ad89faf5a3e3afed08320c04c4b5aaec86bf8fd471ed62c94298d83ed2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B14 11048 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012497.bin
acecbd0b7e0de28630279d2f2fdf771af9a2d4993f86abb931aa3a5af5b79bbd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12497 16648 bytes