Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0c0277e21a6fd7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-05-25 09:12:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 1a91472871f320afa4b20455bd599af3 SHA-1: 3a974324d24dd185f95d0d90ec2cf7249da06bc6 SHA-256: c0c0277e21a6fd7a87706f17650b8000b6aff8bbbe437d9f3a40205db627a394
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata related to 'wkhtmltopdf' and a date, which are likely artifacts of its generation rather than user-facing content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggest the document's purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cd6270e56edbaecbe8800fee5fb1207/puwozoxuwarumilodigagep.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a34f7d241833b44f734fc2cbb92d599e/loxizusiduxukor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a80e36e8019---jirazotifenesexiviguvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harchovyk.com/userfiles/file/mufexebobex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775dda8ab2a---70420823902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ccd6bb166---negumebakaguzab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/796a9f699e4fa2ff47ef742a58804bff/41649177136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/navomatabiranenunil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077fe08e529c---82471318914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097f9f621d56---12478376349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/22685425816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphaconsultinggroup.us/vpw/images/file/86376074513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cda7abb68cd618b32b3336f06b0343e/37235173323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitpchemcieszyn.pl/_sitpchem/file/soliwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=manual+book+sysmex+xn+1000PDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c9f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9F2 5060 bytes
SHA-256: b3a18ccf6a01be40c7bd24a27d9ea15388ec0cea6ead7200f83b5ca794380c56
font_01_sfnt_off0000db1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB1C 10668 bytes
SHA-256: d0b157a107ea44fa861de35ed2dc18a8ef9374d5c7ddcc0aad1d7fec286192f1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFB1 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361