Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0e4747219a72134…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-07-24 02:48:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f4a074acdf6e983970ec39bae30723a1 SHA-1: 022fea5f92c4d9c8a56f02bcb98ef12035050ebc SHA-256: c0e4747219a72134988c5d1515c460598e8a99dfbaa491a504180f685f5f2a74
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm hosted on compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to other malicious sites. The embedded URLs, despite some being marked benign, contribute to the overall pattern of directing users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9914

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://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ca51be71b---90162931601.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202106182104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9cebfd2c90---29831350674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1927a736b---45822045970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lionkingbali.com/uploads/file/paraxonupiwika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gmpp4u6un5esdva8319vnhr6p1/paxatuliraraxevivuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundacionamigosdelmarcaribe.ong/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38352102268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f671b3e1c8b657afc797dc999591971a/88241448429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arvikabc.com/images/uploadedimages/file/73641350431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seerupit.dk/assens/file/55219979809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94888412c082a394906ed75203bb783f/9011679701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7616099d2ff368d3739fe1fd0d8da85f/fatagadanamivifide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bb4855fb42674a1fe185ae5c6404430/18626269371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca033d7155a---72625234911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haozuowenwang.com/imagefiles/file/95828634837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aravlicraft.com/cmsCart//upload/file/fapusazurogetefuxomim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuephotocopytaihanoi.com/upload/files/pivixixoxegudetokededolur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.com/images/userfiles/file/11154989725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4e082d2e452d4a15cc65baad34f9293/17754294132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47086d7dfbedf1437425fde182f2206a/tabufipub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hw-power.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/60dfdded4e4c9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j-club.eu/userfiles/file/lalaxitepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609184a2da5c7---lizalofude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dgssu.com/upfolder/e/files/20210720002702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca0f148fe34a2758255b5481cc228bd5/1840849075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amajyuku.com/files/files/64698173653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=la+valse+d%27amelie+poulain+piano+sheetPDF 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_off0000f276.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF276 18424 bytes
SHA-256: e61034d976ec0870f423d9426452bd78388a1d7b6946144aad7aa7d19849a162
font_01_sfnt_off000122f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013b07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B07 10716 bytes
SHA-256: adaddda4acca6e4dfaff73d48423d981f77bda18d4cbcf7ebdc1a93c7b1fa3e7