Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0dc1e74f8abf3e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 21:58:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f825b1312baa0182abc0dbddc3abced4 SHA-1: 9f0952b56c5667f5e00a79dd8ba315cd666d62ef SHA-256: c0dc1e74f8abf3e99cacef68a2dd3845712b121077a66aab8ade0996e4ed6514
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic firings and extensive URL list are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a710df092f4---vutibaribanes.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ikoi-es.club/yamituki-n/uploads/files/67922875306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiuanai.com/userfiles/file/72222823667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mnpttkrfh8ibiqaj53cu234ild/84301528832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf6df777cdf0e287fec8482a740fa465/65751637438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eravukappalpalli.com/userfiles/file/52901862922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a3bf7a015e5ed967775dc96be3a71a7/14442608782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartarts.bg/userfiles/file/44521148748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greenbriarpropmgmt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b3a723991a0ce42d70d05bffd735845/fixaxubibarijopewiwonip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b600fbe1688---24807008394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o3nffc9i9qlbsmk7ql083lkvr3/69298911310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lutechmed.com/Images_upload/files/vunug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64288c2c358559f9e3f596eac2c8ac3c/sakudopew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elyriahigh1974.org/clients/0/05/052ab20d644b737728595af1a47b4450/File/lowasijuroxekewawufoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tr7uvlbgh28adcfb54afdvs6m7/58563083184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8403c7f1e18b6c9e4f42d5bcf0d375b/bemewip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/defiwajewanizasafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toshiteriyakiburien.com/uploads/files/1851266169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aef1e13a787---52726408060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j46ben36frbgcn0k3t3srnosba/54663008807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakenflowersonline.com/userfiles/file/fasanopulabodozekiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be4a9fa1e9a---47240779487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ktcz.eu/files/files/bojumajowegebonifurulewug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=thrips+in+mangoPDF 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

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f2b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010acf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ACF 10384 bytes
SHA-256: b4e013fbbbdcfc7178822267922ded163084782103fbe610ac65ddecd9047fa1
font_02_sfnt_off00012205.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12205 17128 bytes
SHA-256: 28c5ea5ae6c31eab2cdcaba341b57932ca6da49c46bf0ba016aa010e1f9abe02

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