Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c07adc2ca13866bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 14:07:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 6a0962af14ecc5c11c7135ae0b2e56ed SHA-1: 0e11384e4fa8bdb97a5fb785fbd90a7ae57e6c58 SHA-256: c07adc2ca13866bdb9b4ee4704326514d073619788e26c05c527ac35635b1b9c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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=love+songs+guitar+chords+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://ck-kutnahora.cz/gais/image/file/35452582107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2996cb1e1a---38932670970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608470cd2003e---12925696923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://channeloflove.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/defusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b75a270ba69---10099064988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-luczak.pl/new/fck_user_files/file/59300753158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluekeydigital.com/images/pic/file/83369677658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/tanagek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090bf45f2917---mipiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tekartltd.com/upload/files/50386350130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aviseco.ro/userfiles/file/13057513413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conflictfreeelectronics.com/ourprojects/chowki/UserFiles/renuka/file/9619170363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d488468bb6---13317132698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ergo-logo-bamberg.de/userfiles/file/29430907052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maturitni-ples.eu/UserFiles/File/82533624379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever-progress.com/upload/files/1192413332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ff9b3d7582---wuxevuwalikise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/44453712764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a872dd955baded4ed5525e6c7e67e416/2434307513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607682be07963---kazulepuven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradmissions.com/ci/userfiles/files/nuzewamupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bd033fa978feda69615964822626b48/32908451525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/xazefibomon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e6fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6FD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF0F 18192 bytes
SHA-256: 629bcd82cb687a1f762e7fcbd55b50aac0664885ecad354c5332670fb8d0bfb7
font_02_sfnt_off00012e16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E16 10976 bytes
SHA-256: efacdb0398e9a3096b03334852b25bf932ee622f5398534063039122f01e69ac