Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c064df13e50cbb1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-07-24 16:45:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 4ad0183fc808d97bf59a3f8a92f32a35 SHA-1: 5e2f1c1d5bd7ddea8b4bb554c5dd723bbec54674 SHA-256: c064df13e50cbb1be83d9111b130bf662276266bd264d0317a640554eb504419
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e10e6c4ff0---lunopiwoteguwazotek.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://walker-doss.com/clients/4/45/450b4a4af5ff3f13851793278d9c7ef8/File/najabadoniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseretochter.com/images/file/wujutasuvixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o8ltotdh7o5e60p2dr1ev4v1r3/duxewuvipomuketanigunif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isabellepieman.com/userfiles/file/83552372876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/98973784216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwplazaview.com/uploads/files/nikulolaxugaputawatevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q2b8lnt0j189p6mfq2i2gch5b3/seduxiguwijivumuxifid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/729341653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signika.pl/Upload/file/sodunefilalutojamenen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f052ca132e02b84918dc2b7dddb2df54/84503468318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7d32859a029c62b76d16ab2f877b246/fuvaririjudosumaxaxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://incoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/pubexizotutidivisufami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ovva2jchi541prh0dbuo1v26e5/nikexodimujomof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae9d3ca466a---53852795642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a529cd2e885---jisinofofugigamataxenejub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teraval.cz/res/file/81438859851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eprdel.cz/userfiles/file/jelurebonatagorabupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miguktour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210604_36B8DF469C106473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fe31078b72e0ae94ad0d46a85eb8e2f/57796668946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61973bcf2bb3871d0266833b740a7395/43601102308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asset-books.com/userfiles/file/duralilogabuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honda-vo.com/upload/file/5827475947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+much+does+a+teacup+pomeranian+puppy+costPDF 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_off0000f242.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF242 16660 bytes
SHA-256: cd78fda829f93674f86c598b1ce1a82b11c67748935de1798b1bc92f8fc07a07
font_01_sfnt_off00011d9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000135b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135B6 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 7588b8b26cd96dbb42c1dbed74aa522f0ae57429c05810a19c60a094718426fd