Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c864db38250dadc7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-06-29 09:31:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 4a4c2cb12b0ac0e3bc4bea0928a4b40b SHA-1: 83c9318bf7604784ffcb862e93258c383d475f63 SHA-256: c864db38250dadc747179c7139cac58702dd1c8048f864f0c659c25d85e1478a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607420de5af58---23968913439.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ckqrkbggj3crte4ufiia8il13u/kulidovomiraromuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c112206bfcc---16280959377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f82ad24902---sasebebazewepos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdrum-music.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/xobup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6be6d43fb6---bewabawafiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ad7f19a56---69386649793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehomeforeclosure.org/images/file/simupurekegopurofiron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valleypainclinic.org/userfiles/file/80294827077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wulf-sanitaer.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7394eaollri2v0qqc2a277n84/65732204822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/37328952347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/411093735796341a4eaec40162971e14/72979875872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aplusadvance.com/naver_editor/data/file/zawefoniligefevizivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7d5a3e4f98---24237308837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consurs.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61689321176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b38f4199465---73811283114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muslimofwestbengal.com/mwb/editor_upload/files/waxepovowiruboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf9a862db8---73105650477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7b667fc79f8cf6a4c35a33cb054d929/89980671109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novahealthclinic.ca/userfiles/file/84411690955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/469307d3199ac41e202770d54c29a2bf/76762633490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morgancountyoh.com/userimages/juxubufogomunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae96c3cdca9---91877726463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archerelectricsupply.com/userfiles/file/92497534911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19bed78b30fab3e1a4d13b3486e6c7ef/soxusifekodizamikowaxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=itextsharp+html+to+pdf+imagesPDF 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_off0000c3dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3DD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBEF 16260 bytes
SHA-256: 316b633610bd6214e41e4fcfa7478acf2da52e6cfb24749ec791b4b8fcade3ce
font_02_sfnt_off00010672.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10672 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 03f81b87b40042bb3f0bd94ea607c8b55e01694f35e52c2b42de45d258e7cae3