Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c1466cbd140f7a46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-14 06:26:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 6d3666c7c65903d1ced1c026efa72ea1 SHA-1: 5ee0c38ebfa4c228c5a1f26c61b7afea332ab0f5 SHA-256: c1466cbd140f7a46ec33c755a8a83515363cbf19625675ce7384d41143a0b334
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. This structure suggests the document is intended to act as a link farm, potentially leading users to phishing pages or malware downloads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161361e0d767d3---mepuvakejovawozura.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://floridainvestment.cz/files/file/zuzaxowapidulid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136c14475852---61649736968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95fa00cd4f83e471a0e97fe30cc0784c/wenaredazepejurok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melvin.cz/data/79472655253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbc9b44d02c7b35cb5ae668b5f2540a5/riwuworalovenavotedumuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schoonhovensvrouwenkoor.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26964475318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topup-fight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xamabade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fuchingrading.com/upload/file/35403784555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megashina24.ru/files/files/27289151152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalthailand.com/images/uploads/ckfinder/files/35674101149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjzjygj.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/sevijasatufegovez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://millvalley.com/wysiwygfiles/file/99613819042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scenekunstskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lazamirowebasoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rickgrisolia.com/userfiles/files/22341527648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef2c03cc2e899269c70c44539ae914c9/29519116131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onecre.com/images/content/files/54427336088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-pro-peau.fr/userfiles/file/lizalemugekem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bb0733822b---62307856452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaztelcom.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suxaxujigeluxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easternhoteljeju.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210914_54EFC0A74BF92207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yousefmaktabi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zedemakut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akatumusics-ang.communication-pro.fr/public/1283/contenu/file/1176970116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actlogistic.vn/upload/editor/files/69577784433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguynakorn.com/praguynakorn/picture/datapro/files/87595757225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=video+converter+for+pcPDF 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_off0000e42c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE42C 17216 bytes
SHA-256: 6e935e360ce167c7e5f745776fbfcc3f930ad985da03c1f28e4f41a843200b10
font_01_sfnt_off0001110f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1110F 10272 bytes
SHA-256: 244c8108b934c72c3b2077c2eb9dcc1bf27e31f926f10b131864cb8ef6acef1c
font_02_sfnt_off00012843.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12843 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1