Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c94dee0b3fed00a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 10:23:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1a578a843b54c37612e0ff73c5edf40f SHA-1: 131097327ccf2453d5ef9005aebf58cf14a85323 SHA-256: c94dee0b3fed00a181ba2ce34c91636b901745065ae6a26779c223ae4b8a71b3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content or downloads. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and the use of UTM parameters further indicate a phishing or spamming campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160765418958e1---pokexifirofilojajij.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://simonhoirup.dk/userfiles/file/kujom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076a0c9e4bc2---18151636853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612a1f92e2514---xikalewugidunanozeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directorvincentchow.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/lusuxelimufub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078297a3e563---82002631235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dewalt-naradi.cz/media/upload/editor/file/gulutoparijezarenuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b32d27088---49528417683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sehs67.com/clients/e/e0/e078d4d0076166a7bb489ca3b3a583ab/File/razelelereto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hhcreunion.com/clients/4/43/43f38dc94a4d709fe78decf5bd9d7370/File/seworumuzifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a79a6c4b91---26899720379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84df9a76e3a02bb3f58f7d5a4ac876b0/lotejowuwewewaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isitekmuhendislik.com/userfiles/file/lojofiruwojetobawofuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070385e2ae03---rewuzujekumovetaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ea9dbdaba2---mirukare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alt-1c.ru/userfiles/file/vuxutatunepilegar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aecee7ab93fa382f10e8aa4ce881d229/73091701794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clickkedai.com/userfiles/file/25939934917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31154df5f194f4d38a8694ac190577f2/4158274284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df8b6c7c96aeaae20fae7e689e40f53f/vijapuriruriputowajekisam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubforeducation.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/nurezewiwurirow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d07e901364c---61739440211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceresasrl.it/userfiles/files/sipetepekumudizoweko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12shio4.com/contents/files/34545626760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=role+of+teacher+in+community+development+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_off0000e657.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE657 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE6E 11044 bytes
SHA-256: b633c0afb41fd843b607877232841cb98c01bea0b30cc875c78eb0b978864ed9
font_02_sfnt_off000117fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117FA 17004 bytes
SHA-256: 873e4bec36d949f233d4fba3320730117ef1fa51baaed171a1d49efddfcadff7