Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c06298c8a20437af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-06-26 13:42:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 12c3afba47baae337c41c7734b1d9977 SHA-1: a63779c214cbb3a98b0f06929ac7fee1039ed277 SHA-256: c06298c8a20437afce0029319cb3b450eeb077082c04f625acf3abfdeb107d0b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute traffic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

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://oddluzanie.net/userfiles/file/43130189698.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/amoihiuodosajrav18e527n5o2/81915342050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081ae3b0e07d---83235368339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mmaue070agrj88tnkiupei8obt/nugibalul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontanarosaserigrafia.it/userfiles/file/72956391041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karapinarinsaat.net/userfiles/upload/file/wekozesapadolizitidazejef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bortran.com/upload/image/file/20210613052643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080756e47a4a---kerevilat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a01cbd4aa4edf309e16108fbe2fd80a3/mepajanewapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf8358d513c---39437434542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb4cf32a4d1---ralimoxenefefaduxosolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brtim.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/tejavimatonokib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q5dkg1ssrugbvmc1fl1dkn8c12/57677420988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad9f210326d---54398467415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfe6d36bb64---devugofakirodeneta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d11f27aa84---40983920741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carstenrath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38llujqnjrm66hg2vgohmqt9r2/72286689543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotusromeo.fr/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/78154911453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/17387203796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f279c624c2---xoxisiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestreaming.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59ijuurbcr066rskgj3oe2jb4bhbsrri/66950293815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busangh.com/attfile/fckimg/file///20210620234758_981284991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gofropack.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c0fd1cbc312aa139f3b46f331080b9c/raguvurunakuzutetodujum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=fear+of+guinea+pigsPDF 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_off0000f8cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8CB 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 9b9b475b1152c743ba93991fa36973c18b23e90be44708ee6687983ab506e0bc
font_01_sfnt_off000110a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110A2 17000 bytes
SHA-256: 704628b0b2c014b62f52937338648c78e6ddd3ac88674d1287e18aab81e95190
font_02_sfnt_off00013d04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D04 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1