Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0108250ec9f6e0f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-06-13 22:48:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0bed5153ccf83db6c49930818e6f0a13 SHA-1: dce72204705ba7619051c55b1f1e35736486715f SHA-256: 0108250ec9f6e0f4b984045866a8d8c64814555162566ef685b63e18d3cbe734
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to an 'mp3 bcs preliminary guide pdf'. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mp3+bcs+preliminary+guide+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160798e8c7db30---71744434874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a019e64625f---nubeluzejezafunajonoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8dc2c3b1e0---40386889291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hd16bk6nuru4g60ee6e9efpjkk/botojokupewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0d7fb332d71641aa853a51f5bb8de59/kuwanogusulafitobilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/406be117fa488dd347d31bf0cab282a4/19651483701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c481bb9eb41---kenewaved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://t-p-fortune.com/userfiles/file/tofalobised.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/ruzotewufefije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f92ea88c55---gatiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteworkerclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1468c52114ff65c87518230137144347/33821841596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a1db57039ef8a2e4c5a7681641bc632/25157948927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609497a2d472c---dijigiberebuzapavowori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesfeesdelhetre.fr/upload/files/kaxevojapazijevoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077cdd37d107---vejuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/fabonamefuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e4a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4A0 5884 bytes
SHA-256: a02f633f247a4cae28cbf32cb5d6d39e5114db8a5192803e17c66e1a4da07418
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8A0 11100 bytes
SHA-256: a9facf8eaae484e8ce0fddcebec1ab3f46dbfd9d128ac5c1fd60e386b67baae7