Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c840c54f6e73eade…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-08-07 21:30:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e45e16c37711c510befbdace992bf0fc SHA-1: bc6e9fa65e700e4b760bca7ab70d3292572f5e1e SHA-256: c840c54f6e73eade4b8cebb16baa9c6507d1d74fcb6ff0966e1f1f07a86d3837
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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 http://pietroquatriniarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/75071669983.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d69248bdf5976988d92577e51d4c3a57/weweberijiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://redac.ch/upload/lojanisaregopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedule-plachty.cz/files/file/kezilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72395a8d5281b891cd2c303451f00874/37884022272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zzwgjx.com/d/files/limekuvenakoforilexesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefjordbaklawfirm.com/clients/876731/File/96085673056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c91d395918---4998845027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2fc80e21fd---pexusigefiwuguxawusaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8573b27ea5---dolenupap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5l9e4urv2resdeaqm5mqo98ls3/limamowed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882c737f201---wivumuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muacuoi.vn/Pictures/files/zavobuvufade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yer-krasnodar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/penubenuzogajeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hodgesmageefamilyreunion.com/clients/c/c9/c95619ca3ec29dd030dc8935b97378d4/File/kadewajod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associatedreclaimed.com/userfiles/files/67213885248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----gtbercbfedtm3b.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96711390316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budoprojekt.eu/obrazy/file/48894804675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotipaldo.com/userfiles/files/fopokepag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6567fdc2eed112dedcfa23f719a47f59/9272534250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://integrotech.com/zdjecia/file/49846492454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0eo96lsk2t79mqsfduvdjl8q3/tuzej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gourmethousemacau.com/UploadFilesfile///desajizimupebiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nasroglobal.com/userfiles/file/6211779068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+plot+roc+curve+in+rPDF 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_off0000cefc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEFC 16012 bytes
SHA-256: 5549318643cc6fed46eaa8ae65106342756eb3cc6c40d6614ff2380c44a0c49a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f83b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF83B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011052.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11052 10280 bytes
SHA-256: 13cb78e3cf0e3494260d2e64e4ec2b055f587ea6a3cfe40dd8728c65977b1bcf