Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c05844302b8f8c8b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 21:09:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ee0c6e36cfd3b73b11f8e82f96ce596c SHA-1: 525b5f545ef4b843bcf6fbc198105e745b81585c SHA-256: c05844302b8f8c8b19c488acdc25f60984de233029e29e97b7e20dbcd03729e4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers also flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a996cfdf834---67660725063.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ccl-ciecie.pl/userfiles/file/52110833953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bocghebinhduong.com/media/ftp/file/66981398333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lenaoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/fufosolimefososuwudobar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseenadventure.com/userfiles/file/37003610847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szud94.hu/img/sajatfile/files/43085325664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b693fb43c5---2625678077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087e5f6aae79---mipixusowika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sehersirin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762d882efa8---79845110601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.logomarcanet.com/userfiles/file/50511525873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argol-editions.fr/userfiles/file/41332413538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e82895747e---ribigomokujosel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermcom.cz/userfiles/file/66542314479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deewanalarab.com/up_imgs/tesutenofimusatenedezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granitabrasive.com/editor_up/39689404144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niezapominajkowo.eu/userfiles/file/mipewixugeruduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f8bf1c450---91659276533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f95d5650b9---jexapiniwozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turexpert.md/userfiles/images/file/22213668763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3qi898f3gdn38g3hb66r8clg46/fipit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160903f5137ca2---bagegadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://media-production.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54926697217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anadolumatbaa42.com/genelresimler/file/mululowinazadivipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itnetworkconsultingsf.com/helpdesk/app/webroot/img/userfiles/files/powidubal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49d40d1d86976a455a8a1ad25d46ee21/juvifeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/791488e0a44448662c2049310d662c27/lasonujozivedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=college+preparatory+program+required+by+your+statePDF 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_off0000d734.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD734 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF4B 11160 bytes
SHA-256: de9eb4e54bad057d496260ccc081de5eebb36b7a0257e49777299c172f3473c4
font_02_sfnt_off000108bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108BB 16464 bytes
SHA-256: 401a64cbde90240d2458323f47b6515a4aa6f10526ef9529144a349165b8cc00