Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c73641d03f345cf1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:10:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: e7e24f6c4afa0ea76b14bbfe74f41d4d SHA-1: 61e0c1a7c25eef586b05f9848aa2dd3e8d953927 SHA-256: c73641d03f345cf1db316576439395a1da30d82d3329d0b64059fa81ef2f7d55
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9885

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://hgqq.hk/tony/churchofgod/ckfinder/userfiles/files/berewiku.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://robert-zauer.cz/userfiles/file/poxakop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6csq7ihbcus2s4tv91gn1l25a9/9203464858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c88e50a3dd68cd26c9fecba89bb93ea9/dezewiwevufitabawuturuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somsit.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44350611187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cantarefides.ro/admin/userfiles/file/21401824008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyadvisersaustralia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/146922a0e53b064da67c98e3430b4d19/10109928746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da2b86a001a---61506186433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35febad55ed78922937a64a06bb5352c/ladogezaneres.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/rexoxufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/jepajulax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/xopover.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aluvascientific.com/UserFiles/file/80308889417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/biaufctk5cd2i41od8228cegb6/vudejujifibugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df3f05c847034b2c6d12c1ee1de1ff58/61457282406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/92655441272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094dd1082a67---6761223940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ranagro.com/files/13397459828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-district.org/userfiles/file/kidapilomakupogunuzefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb5fefe49c0---legireba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/74740396498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qazaqbanki.kz/data/content/files/33221521215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/50647477238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701fcde6f75---7029205054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5fb130f4e2f6790a0e7c7cef34e10d3/72224661472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seger.cz/userfiles/file/zevir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae30d66acdc070ca5e1eff0750d615f6/diratuxinesewobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+say+the+rosary+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_off0000be2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE2E 16388 bytes
SHA-256: 9a3d55e22e1eab2a365bb01ca979160e54bf7ca6af51136f74b1b1547b942d76
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7C1 10544 bytes
SHA-256: d78cb69a78483a6c4cded918f8c3fd4024a824faf5adc339331a15c1c086624e
font_02_sfnt_off0000fffc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFFC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1