Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca224ee6cc0b09fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-08-17 06:27:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: e795ef0d0018b1f82de555c2e85c6088 SHA-1: b57387eae57c0345280f6c39418ea5858591840c SHA-256: ca224ee6cc0b09fb3c0f598ff6de715be438cf1f470bb8a33d526794311efd64
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a878e7c9539---bugamupagarovaxodudawat.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gonguyenkhoi.vn/upload/files/98601871221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hepiran.com/cache/fck_files/file/58463478414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e98fbe72b2da23c4227ea736aa064c3d/37695839478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prospekt-rostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tojudokewotige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a64eba3c499---likiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happysmilecard.com/uploads/files/49818998596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dafangtour.com/fckeditor/userimages/file/tikuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matchonusa.com/uploads/files/8750413103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b0a74336c---22359975921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.meditech.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7311770500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/28727907617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewaves.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2ps136mm8j0bteet4ek79o8pn/dimidinutivoduvan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immo-cjeanpaul.lu/userfiles/files/37987482217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25d742d256---mexovunufapimoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clairerolo.com/userfiles/file/nopepujelitawaxexuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c534319ab5f---rojibokuriwesopose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cfa1c007cb14529b28aef523a77f7e7/sinoxexekewigutikojugex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/42991560840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://applecentervn.com/uploads/image/files/34134204711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb975dd77254b4319a17aae5792e643d/62994361031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sardavetri.it/userfiles/file/kujurufat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1954748f98caf043c6e7a57290ff5f97/5411120600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609faa9e29842---kumebabodiwox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=como+sacar+el+volumen+de+un+rectangulo+3dPDF 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_off0000def2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEF2 10992 bytes
SHA-256: ca22673f2a29c4a66f92d854ce84740c0000ad7d6646ccdcbc351e88201720c3
font_01_sfnt_off0000f85d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF85D 20808 bytes
SHA-256: 0bffd4e30c483abf2a7235348c254bfec9358ad0276ed0590aa817ccc94d93ab
font_02_sfnt_off00012cda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CDA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1