Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca008c0e0ac30ed7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-06-27 00:17:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b0a37d354e9eb05f228042dfa2072769 SHA-1: 29fa2c8b6e19ef50d10b15ba5d202b409db9ea2d SHA-256: ca008c0e0ac30ed7ce15ae6010c7daba70c15ae508aba5952daae443847729c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites using the super-forms plugin. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

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 https://orldoc.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g81tsl5t2ojupm40e3ur1ateb1/rajoperufigavo.pdf
    • http://tsg-vaganovskoe.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12922661884.pdf
    • http://highlandhighclassof1962.com/clients/c/c3/c330a44b04b080977bf299ea430a317d/File/49286293485.pdf
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1860c03bc9d59ca1c23f3d9ea42ec95c/79754045652.pdf
    • https://classykitchen.pl/web/uploads/files/22781715459.pdf
    • https://mls.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/171928b56bb4342a8f1e3bfb90e8763b/jamulitifowunajoxom.pdf
    • http://coffee33.ru/archive/file/91649856762.pdf
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f7a9026658190498b86d9bf39192485/tudiduso.pdf
    • http://xn--h49al33a2zdp0eo1x.com/DATA/file/20210620061807.pdf
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf4bofbmq7ur0o0kci4e2sae43/30270830295.pdf
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8810f5ab1a---55469284571.pdf
    • http://cipetbhopal.com/webimg/files/ragolaled.pdf
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ace6c7ac65---44462687433.pdf
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba657bb6082---75881143466.pdf
    • https://mps-india.com/userfiles/files/70225834216.pdf
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abab7123792---28369208075.pdf
    • http://www.rify.us/cms-uploads/files/11869683390.pdf
    • http://strandedtattoo.net/file/14647120639.pdf
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/773cf2b4379bf7d961105e3bff1ba3dc/90063218374.pdf
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e447eaedea3f78fb35fe9568b436b855/putojufukutumunupulajew.pdf
    • http://ranaghatpchsschool.org/userfiles/file/binokijosu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=cost+of+raw+materials+used+in+production
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f0bc.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0BC 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000108d3.bin
852f9582ee9dfe69be3ece9b90648f23cfc5b0e7465d934a9cd7cce82257f4d5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108D3 10996 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001226f.bin
22c548d0d4e493181326714d26f124a72c84066b7a9ca1fc740f251fa339582e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1226F 17288 bytes