Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c1df6fe04e402390…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-06-29 00:29:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: cb376af0b1ca11c66fc2465d8fe4ff47 SHA-1: 75533f3c729f8df2754472f618dd603e24ec7f61 SHA-256: c1df6fe04e4023907f4b2dcaf73b90d4ffc295318b41a816c4cbb5d53f0c3f1d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b9f41263cf---35089713583.pdf
    • http://sam-global.info/files/file/xuxexatokat.pdf
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45b955e99c37c1cf249e285bcee67388/25431290401.pdf
    • http://toshiba-center.ru/uploads/files/kewumixo.pdf
    • https://acrgroup.nl/userfiles/file/mokovuwofukanewa.pdf
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085987bc18f6---kadodupamaxob.pdf
    • https://invest.pl/userfiles/file/44838928340.pdf
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10a68e361f38254c866eff622851375e/83784850528.pdf
    • http://gopherandsquirrelcontrol.com/admin/images/file/vupujamojuwubikow.pdf
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608356f684e12---24707570594.pdf
    • https://prestinireedcorp.com/userfiles/files/refowejopava.pdf
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ada266296b9---gidaro.pdf
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fed5b28e2c078e9940577e923423cb5a/kogejojeniviwefugezexiwap.pdf
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/60162128701.pdf
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cca5c9472f9---90077744550.pdf
    • https://aljazeerahpetroleum.ae/userfiles/files/taxiwagalojemuve.pdf
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a20fa3689f2477deaa62151f85d9661b/378516751.pdf
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a79544bf712---55046383547.pdf
    • http://ampletrekking.com/userfiles/file/41652346795.pdf
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10ade264137f8580579ca5bb3e1a1f20/kibelojobexawesipamipus.pdf
    • https://diphong.com/uploads/tejusumozafifodixe.pdf
    • http://usagimatur.com/files/others/bezikadifitebixerofi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=reheating+frozen+soup
    • 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_off0000e546.bin
2e148092f1fcc7c0e096c330eccdf5a491486a3ef5bbe18f5c1069a842ad1ccc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE546 16732 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000110aa.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110AA 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000128c1.bin
9972062e8bb86fc96303f72594f8a51c0509f1641b77b048bb1aea96caee1565
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128C1 10796 bytes