Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c68a7ce2ee9550a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 18:52:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 930cde89b64c2f1eebda814fca43ddfb SHA-1: 4931ec9aa74522ba672c8a823569b0dbd2186a96 SHA-256: c68a7ce2ee9550a156983fa1e4f15156dec996255d810a5b35fb6a09bc31d78e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. Static analysis revealed numerous embedded URIs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d0ddaa09fa0c6859662784f21201add/riwoduwuduvakonaxux.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bac97d6b70---46275085250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cadc6c80c6b30a5c0b5eff2f384691a7/77347422316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c18e2e371c9---90795646857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadiumhighschoolclassof1965.com/clients/0/00/0080f9a3d0f10e930bcfc39f0a940e94/File/wizaropoden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylplj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bokexunafakapuxurijeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsrmmessina.it/userfiles/files/wekepurebexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161273a2e5de4b---wewesegodotevuforapen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607089f8eeb55---85969351900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prospr.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xufuvete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ashasuchikala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuwug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rc-modeller.se/images/file///sotifufivewofadoxiwupet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aristosaigonhotel.com/uploads/files/tenoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.babetravelling.com/ckfinder/userfiles2/files/78957379105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a270f8617f---soradob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gonouvellezelande.com/files/tijekalulil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commune-bourre.com/userfiles/file/vigowated.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/498531eabd6f48878de473ccae1e6fd5/wogikenure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eda88a1157---fipunobavivinuxagom.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog//file/89817161206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.knickmeier.net/images/pageimg/file/80831986626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e215ccbb10b---35896161185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taiyotech.jp/userfiles/file/furumanukaliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=tu+dien+anh+viet+cho+pdfPDF 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_off0000b646.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB646 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE58 15832 bytes
SHA-256: a8b1dfef7e0c0fb718e2f35ce1f03f9e3a43752dec57725c45fbb502018d8420
font_02_sfnt_off0000f695.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF695 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 986c97604606104273741a8bf1e2642c317ead365ec07e91dcfe62fadd3a3d9a