Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0dc910990fc68c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.2 KB Created: 2021-06-27 22:37:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: af15bbbced7fdb16753a03fbbddf9ba7 SHA-1: 2e68a14c0d26e7d51fc42dc21bd2691285d88aa6 SHA-256: c0dc910990fc68c1088256bf72d6fa8c1445417e8e8b0e87170e85009ea4c4d2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to WordPress sites with 'super-forms' or 'formcraft' plugins, suggesting a pattern of link farming on potentially compromised infrastructure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6cce32b988209e84b591ee1bb7f6bd0/47151218569.pdf
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/73651029338.pdf
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a3eb81efe11d461582c34f0c03391cc/redigojes.pdf
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p0364v5dd1oith7rrhli4iipp1/88587631784.pdf
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e92c9eb8c4---zibirovojusuguver.pdf
    • https://momsgardenfoods.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33283433312.pdf
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9887217719db61a4729f4f8c6e52d633/poziviguwoxejumokus.pdf
    • http://xn----7sbabaajmdfbk3ddf3azka3b6a2r.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81460856102.pdf
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sl9dru2o12aetm272d79p36vd7/kareku.pdf
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e888b4ef1241e472488b1faf13576caf/92785717515.pdf
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40cvii5042hmoq0hpc1iikraan/99805111712.pdf
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2782bafc92992487e354f8cfdea731f0/jekuwusuweforez.pdf
    • https://bestcoloringpages.com/userfiles/file/kedopokizugeb.pdf
    • http://nfc.soo.jp/file/serubegizenopomoke.pdf
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f11ce633af95e001a7e19ee3888e8a4/nozuximimudokewuxix.pdf
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b37592d256d8c9af9eef797ca924455/82123749211.pdf
    • http://casavacanzesanvito.eu/userfiles/files/nufuwogobozupevuvemipabob.pdf
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b40cef5593a---mokenamadezepukifamekepa.pdf
    • http://winso.tw/userfiles/file/82416595663.pdf
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e55f1a6a97---25694946661.pdf
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/attrq15bcc4f2kq6e8pdo3btpk/48996988781.pdf
    • http://cga82.com/admin/File/72608816984.pdf
    • http://fszhenjia.com/upfolder/e/files/20210620162528.pdf
    • https://cafesca.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10727367689.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+print+pdf+double+sided+windows+10
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010f2d.bin
4cebccfe420dca150de80c99631ae4497952fdc99755a283cb2dbb08c332ecef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F2D 17528 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013c8f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C8F 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000154a6.bin
b1710ca7dfdcbc7d55007e322ec571e9eac10065a0dc31341ffaab53c82bd999
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x154A6 10820 bytes