Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0dd7c3cc2e5be85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 14:05:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 33ab4f4a6ea4ea0944aef58b440a50cc SHA-1: b2eede24dcfca7d0cb475394cb527d99491b88ce SHA-256: c0dd7c3cc2e5be85eaee886b13b10f2e7506f2acb23a38a41cefd7cd130f1d53
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to exploit users through indirect means, likely for phishing or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=eating+makes+my+stomach+hurt PDF link annotation
    • http://www.ufolep-69.com/contenus/files/97978787273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawina-radom.pl/files/file/87173773631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093c507551c9---18221931789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2602833db0850d253b7e26d7341e1049/nulipuxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160912b151fd7d---34206191021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093fe556bdb2---jilikebimunezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fceresources.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kukiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamokugrofa.sk/admin/fckeditor/file/7338885722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffdafb29ec58210b595d1595a5d2c96a/wuvesisawujekanugadel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petra-dario.info/upload/datoteke/56542173222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egokituz.eus/files/galeria/files/kasovabagoxipirilotum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silesiacapital.eu/data/file/monawuvubewut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27brlklsoq1db8qkhnr27f477c/21661378256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/518cb08f14ad5bf8986148b47e4eba99/mexozobugitafide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19b833fbda9cb9c0d23025938c4045a0/rekexoxugajigar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highendschmiede.de/highendfiles/file/21276152428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fh9qibhp3981vnnop46nnk5c2/daxomojomabidunil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7482166b97---84727575974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bharatbiodiesel.com/userfiles/file/96208780011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b367ad70e1---ranopajikulesexomupefonig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c758a76d2d3---94875042675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609202a3e2f03---35980387404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00011de4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DE4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000135fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135FB 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 54432811e1732bbb859b1de16987613331d6753cc1456bbe2a1e4fd177dcebc5
font_02_sfnt_off00014f17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F17 17508 bytes
SHA-256: da0932e33a0dcd211944c3780fdf8247ca298a7d3760df2f0f3fe3c5115d7304