Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c804aa034c3d437d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.7 KB Created: 2021-07-03 06:27:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 382f39d76e2021bfc2500928b47e901c SHA-1: 16dd5172a9cd616b6085208a489db86970428007 SHA-256: c804aa034c3d437dd6f1de85dc15468be28722cc515123cdd2ab81571086fa31
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDF lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc4bb3927b720af6417c2ef142164cec/wegobarobalidonipiwum.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nfeqkdj3doheh8frjcv842t7ps/81246962248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b014b0b439309f6597443bb3f2d44b92/73171716536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chikatere.com/Upload/files/48639130764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceraunavoltapizzeria.it/userfiles/files/wuxomuvadafezevofunem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/luvukegevipipovunegore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb9f5e0b6e5960264a7bb514b509817c/gezatojefekanajifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5f2d807cfe693f5520d32e49dce84bf/9897388947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geriatriccarenewjersey.com/userfiles/files/bexazopejubovisifevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f332d165dc---dibedox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ba74d61f6---duwiviwibifodene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58kmk4s5qe51vq1lrcqahaetnq/risozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c3051915db931226c699865ccd01743/wabiwiwigofejijexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607207e699d7c---mulakujikugudubejitotumaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamnonkitty.com/webroot/img/posts/files/vibim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/babar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://absolut-fit-and-dance.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81c9u1iteklibvmu1u49uh2deq/46519576503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ca01f32b2---76189407453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/11862175378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609670f39e4ea---podigugubasoputepelofiwod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vko2ri4c7sdmjlfpfg100706k3/11619711889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/to05fqudk99r6o6dvdftm72kfd/84991451956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topplene.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210613150955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/wadixosutamanuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=blast+corps+reviewPDF 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_off000146f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146F3 10468 bytes
SHA-256: e68ef5ca7b49df61fa7759a87a9f45a43f963c5011b5edf223171469bf7776f6
font_01_sfnt_off00015ef4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15EF4 17464 bytes
SHA-256: 2d364842372f1f9826e05d1bfe3efc4f3f41fc6f62f3c459eb83548a10709019
font_02_sfnt_off00018c47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18C47 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1