Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0847ebc159fc56e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-08-24 17:38:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 4ad98e3d7dcc3681f5a051ce79816deb SHA-1: 7884d207ae8914f00114a0b39440092c5c3d3be8 SHA-256: c0847ebc159fc56edbff00c6dcab3a77caf27564b0cefec32a45a2d938eb31fd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and ML classification further support its malicious nature. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://digidatadecolombia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edbc4c800805f91cba2b12046f8d37e8/94362603983.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076843e40ea9---derudapuzadinevubow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flexrocksrollovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kmde8bsp44974flqkpgrt2ndo7/82181795131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuemeism.com/uploadfiles/files/gonitoxowulisirubutiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a56232c1a1---90722283663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nothingbutsafetyglasses.com/userfiles/file/netoladekeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efnnma.org/files/file/33441147055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4l01gmogqhenc3fccvuk5a76t7/jiveraguzipetexodaxare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayhancevik.com/images_upload/files/juxojugabopusoxike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/16540153614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bh0gmpavilleg9rtipmn9ddpi/belijebafifanodisekukima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b749f6614f---xibibolek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/pekubipetet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banktapeunadana.com/tapeunadana/bank2/admin/userfiles/file/90400646783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160749a7b23e92---kogigafiwujanenifulefizaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jikaramen.com/uploads/files/40044303371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tomorrowhubs.com/upload/users/files/28292705578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886b6f82eb2---82281522652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8258137942---52154532753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semot.com/Store/userfiles/file/83271927325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.net/sites/default/files/file/pefolakatiruxotokilex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unserbiokorb.ch/userfiles/file/livekiteze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc85d878d0---96076835542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=invented+difference+enginePDF 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_off0000ead4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAD4 10172 bytes
SHA-256: 5dea93a91db906853f3a15dca09c16e426a2806948526d96271d741346063484
font_01_sfnt_off00010176.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10176 17440 bytes
SHA-256: c655b42abb57d80dd11ea29ff056b32cea258b6c69dd22b1a2e02cd438b03dba
font_02_sfnt_off00012f00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F00 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1