Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4c2ec7955285338…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-13 01:24:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: dd6af14df830efa3651d051afc81f868 SHA-1: 1908f3fa8e75c4cecc8b598ba3e323e8baf30cf9 SHA-256: c4c2ec795528533871ce9f45295bfe8e94c34407919521b3ae24d6060c34dba8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of multiple links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting suggests a link farm designed to distribute malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and heuristic firings imply the PDF is intended to exploit vulnerabilities or trick the user into downloading a malicious payload, likely via a deceptive download button.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161363c7dd09b7.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18029719984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upakuika.com/img/file/mapisorawedidera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161305eb4764b8---demaromenabotobefunog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osteriadelcampanile.com/userfiles/files/76709673300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnlillylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kujorewifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sozopolihills.com/userfiles/file/paridaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mu7ejs1vgbra9res3h5mu3kri1/vuvedovodulune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megalightgroup.lv/uploads/files/99273446481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/67507743643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161340f3865278---josadeboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a23b5b1b33---bokuporuloxibanoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joesservicecenternj.com/userfiles/files/46254782611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpp300.fr/userfiles/file/rodimejoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b46ecfe60b851835a893dd8ae880f38/wetifikutijuzijatewev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://advocaatindex.nl/images/uploads/fabukud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecoaga.com/documentos/file/pepibiwonid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklamaopole.pl/userfiles/file/mufesaduzemutowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j-line.ca/fck_upload/file/sekifagixawuradokum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safrano.pl/userfiles/file/15811471416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.loscam.com/lib_common/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87644913021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0r1t6fl69e44ppll3hg2v3rs8b/64863872546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ues-rb.ru/themes/ues-rb.ru/files/wenitojisifogapavejudov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30a07e92df14a5881395ccc79e79f793/29831312905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://debo-fit.be/userfiles/file///fawajebisajevamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=super+nes+emulator+apkPDF 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_off0000ce79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE79 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 8f2aa8bdcb03337f7d65ca7f0d641e939757c6851e12f96e6ecbf0680bacc5aa
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000febc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEBC 18412 bytes
SHA-256: 7e2fdda5d918c141f0aedba6f631ed85deecb90fa72b558a92566eda746bd781