Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c976e1cd2c07a577…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.1 KB Created: 2021-07-27 09:05:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 9f31c7429f3b120aeeac846df55fc94c SHA-1: ee14dd89a20876e40992860f0f53970e1a9990f8 SHA-256: c976e1cd2c07a5778952f545fe0bdae6fdbe18f491471fbdb9946c441f808ee1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to external sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086195eef953---sumatufolunapawu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cmetrix.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jegumete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netflor.pl/upload/File/45343280420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessvaluationapp.com//fck_files/file/10952136007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/didof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychoterapia-przemysl.net/img/userfiles/file/99181419930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexkarvan.com/cache/fck_files/file/89524260218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7e8976a0d9---96887440835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isagenixmakessense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16743306095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///202173213167689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e9bac2b1e8---kozefajesofapixutaveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masseydogs.com/clients/f/fc/fc2e217ffa4851e49ca3cd921a15cf41/File/terokunisunidepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromowane.com/userfiles/file/32341407240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afe51564029---dijiwidisuxamibamapitikig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b71ac53d7f1cfbd314bfe2d9dd13c49/nobopizubabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vita24h.com/uploads/userfiles/file/40912647904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gioiacompany.net/images/upload/file/mifidubawimazok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cc1f9a2cf03d0036667d2824ff5f339/vadekutegujufafitejotif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/wusupet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpiecznamlodosc.org/files/file/57063968815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jandenzobv.com/image_uploads/file/68218407144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0282aca7560c03e5b867735210f90389/kepitakupom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e702c4e5961---zolirupevofojopijofarepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8c889b36d0---38734958776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=hidrograma+unit%C3%A1rio+sint%C3%A9tico+triangular+do+scsPDF 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_off0000fe49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE49 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 4a6df796e40a391e8b302886d6fe9ed93b0bb238d5641fac768463c020b07bdd
font_01_sfnt_off00011734.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11734 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012f46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F46 19700 bytes
SHA-256: 3bf48dfbe6cea79c3b534439da5ae74a029421cb84f379283caa0a2ade51e30a