Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0992248694ee778…

MALICIOUS

PDF

121.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 17:52:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e2433bc8c1c0b08529ae3d7b887d9599 SHA-1: f4c98f51c5def766f133d46dc05ab496026ce38e SHA-256: c0992248694ee7789f763562e5240368e5601fd308c8fafa9fe43f011973a5e0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of numerous unknown URLs indicates a broad distribution effort, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://praward.tw/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72618256cf18173f1d04e445bf4597b8/61321316465.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://capitalsyndic.com/userfiles/file/54953864754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigercabinetry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/736c13cc769bff812cb0c132eb3c33a7/zepevegokonaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16072db1153ab1---5907538382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a304b0b9c96---23186967963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsara.ru/userfiles/file/55816762763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korea-seals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90161918710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a43dad4756---9050811279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chizclean.ru/files/fck/file/84963625497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611680a4e91d0---kuxotukisojijamuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08f6c744cb5f9ef99e261472dda88555/59959575983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duoctruongxuan.vn/userfiles/image/file/89683004414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicare-darmstadt.de/bilder/UserImages/file/35182074733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/prc89gq4o6673gnk3bjinlh3nf/numofidofizigomup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://futuresbuilder.net/dayafter/uploadimages/newsimages/file/57067075950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geose.ru/userfiles/file/jofufowilagelanajires.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddfed10afec---67670386155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tbd6gi1kch5sqqt7th996igsn1/61956690251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cca9664f3e---xasonedojabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbirozskepodzamci.cz/userfiles/75054448205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084277301f37---56267193529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajeah-intl.org/fck_image/file/zalexodod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rahway1968.com/clients/5/53/53e48f2724afc57738bbbcfbfdbdad27/File/fofadow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.de/userfiles/file/92400820785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4l6uh6i4vncfcl6ldd688mjvh1/gexevejobolemozunag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=shrimad+bhagwat+gita+english+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00016b06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16B06 23044 bytes
SHA-256: 0999a4f57d1a67d06d9ae4f8715ca0c50875a7c542d0cf5db577684f43af5d91
font_01_sfnt_off0001a5e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A5E1 11124 bytes
SHA-256: ba8af0bc8e60d5b0cc3e19e464babd024ae071dee68294663f6767c92faa706a
font_02_sfnt_off0001bf47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BF47 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1