Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc0479bb4beb83e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-06-26 12:24:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 4959570c7546549e317d25b17a30d7f1 SHA-1: 19455fb59288db75029616e002ad4a706dc286ce SHA-256: dc0479bb4beb83e36d810006a2be313b3f66c95f60e239503e79f8f185de1c6b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/gixirurunosuvogogaxoj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b14a12490a4---33855731227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://howsonfamilyreunion.com/clients/5/57/57b8fe7d350e782a16e6afc8bdcd6467/File/76534573389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gfgl2acli4t3b968cnagl32tc7/96040506449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbc703d007d---57526413426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/10389141016097658588ba1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083845370dc5---39773938015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090b5dfaf85c---dixoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd727e49f4---gorajotomuxanukinigajevaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fier-forjat-valimet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58289429357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160836efe2c6da---wulopikebivis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/gijoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimwendelldesign.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37708120236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efee740f26b57a080561a30e7045be0b/35559795432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsm.hk/images/uploadfiles/file/27384781819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://t-p-fortune.com/userfiles/file/tofalobised.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd443707246---78970787097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079245ae89cc---44826625962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pelesiuvalymas.lt/i/File/jigunopizelajakupujid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f9858d866f---foxufikatogulabupusugurak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2729f6a111---vazivoweregerika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160897c575a06f---10951011484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4ef2fca8ab---rotigujiliwitirog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industrialdevices.in/uploads/jazoxipeparefejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3701763ed0a4f1db70c52b920ee7c92a/65834471823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juniorclublivorno.com/sitonews/images_upload/files/novujifawejunitovum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=reduction+of+alcohol+to+alkenePDF 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_off0000f1c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1C9 16780 bytes
SHA-256: 47d7b0748404f1097f949c90090113869c4cb3fffb68664e7a407fa9f9697b57
font_01_sfnt_off00011d6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D6F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013586.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13586 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 83c1f6810a935ee73eb1f3b1d58681cca49077d396d057d26aa2baffc1d3f403