Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0610d21ca13c190…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:59:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 36b66e81161e0f2181accfc720c41f66 SHA-1: 7388c652b30044ba5b08397897bffd209726c1c4 SHA-256: c0610d21ca13c19081f8464b1615c748225bfaf64d6d1097c3d854b842176285
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lead users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

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://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/baa44dd3e37ef00dbfb25e2c857539e2/31175857696.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--22cjbbm2eyae3ehabdb4kqdtae3dxnnc1fhf.com/user_img/files/95889001062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c65904c976---mepuvovinizenimidum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0924055971.com/uploads//files/202108061925467501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610832e4e14e5---gagewawekofiroxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3ca18469ba---54583546464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/59787765653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soroptimist.be/oldsite/intranet/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/images//files/vetusojixoxesasodivulegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akamercedes.com/images/uploads/files/86960042062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5fb605496a694ed1de3f0b2be76f834/18868110120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8af361d6e6---dafize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e9752b834---xanofulobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pixel-pro.ru/upload/file/40053920466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/pebujebazuwolufuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13evduh4hoctjr7ncflfhd0esb/neriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/377fadfv0o99b5pqs2tp1bb3r4/31259380207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://championsview.net/userimages/viwexegalojipemukaguvelel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.letspassdriving.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69rq47sae52n0lo43oqcc47ua9/wipaponanemorasarinek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b572c11ee81---vesafazogililesugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4b91cc1bfc14003c2e6cbffb787417e/8517219324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balarampurblock.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5042681161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bona-agra.pl/Upload/file/xisokekube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://horizonpestservices.com/userfile/xinisumenedis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6331195f7---71940857966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612191c8397bb---pepuxozamefabirarofad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=university+of+education+lahore+challan+form+pdfPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e5de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5DE 19572 bytes
SHA-256: 7a0d0f128a35ca4738ae35cd08026fcf879de155cd516283dc87ad4633f76c42
font_01_sfnt_off000118a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118A6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000130bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130BD 11172 bytes
SHA-256: 38850afdea9bcae6109e71df77d7b781885639df9ba2c59e530b0be49b17b5b6
font_03_sfnt_off00014abd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14ABD 16080 bytes
SHA-256: 6ec0a307146d9be2bdd9dd9a35227856c774c3cce985d3f038f6c9b4f02e256a