Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c544fccca9d3b085…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-07-05 20:05:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: b9d0b0d4dca29e33ed740bdd20ba103e SHA-1: 4677ba82224d2052b591775ee6035d820036fa59 SHA-256: c544fccca9d3b0851ee6101a94f70fb5dc64c411f9e41ed2c6f11958c43ef023
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host numerous URLs designed to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+legend+of+korra+free+online+streaming PDF link annotation
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8298df2cc018b718d870ee1e45ad21a/5523158333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alixdemassy.fr/userfiles/file/fixinero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69df46e256b7265439342532a715fa44/16143978223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelinnsuites.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/68378095187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac70d545fbd---17548360225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qtfg6niibbrliju5jmrf6h1bt5/87963049277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d4a4a80378---dubeguziwasisewan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d21566ee838---5731442453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b0e97c25f2---64037633391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2d1d667ff76fb722669ecc46e75ec2b/maxajobunusedaxinofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebeccafantarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/7795985498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lkibe7df87sgfgk3sbh1lbl5s7/95084170437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capesociety.ca/uploads/files/11237760216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/15541704403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae0a7a6122e---golufenup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4seasonstours.in/userfiles/file/fobiladal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b4306ee2c8---lozoduzesukebefopuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hhihelhhmnf6rqdhin9tg53ha1/ponepelabimavewijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a27fe8ea5f6---vozedabivitede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093ce622476a---vufaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5200bf9cbf6d8cfddbcbbad9b362b4be/3147475389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio-september.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c8efe5090b13f409752bd98d56109a3/bumozazewaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbb0bb22a80---tabib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ivfk74ff1ickki2r9eeubk2ab3/30650128326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098860e2d7ed---75409434707.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_off0000d313.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD313 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB2A 10856 bytes
SHA-256: df8b37d50fa6332ea2063a95f05599f9eeb6eda65fb69b5a7f9720c68ac10de6
font_02_sfnt_off000103d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103D5 15276 bytes
SHA-256: 159ad51a05c052c8a288d4bc882afdc4c62216fc3ff13321e20e1575eb54cfe8