Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0308a879470156ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 18:20:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 00f2fb09e68f8092223faecc74b7ebfb SHA-1: fecd3f3ed847d74ae604dea3f262785f3f62f1da SHA-256: 0308a879470156ed5f01e0fcbc8beda23160e12ed2aeebe936ff0a082890821e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal the PDF acts as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters suggests a phishing or spam campaign aimed at driving traffic to these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=moto+870+snapdragon
    • https://faktxeber.com/resimler/files/virixusegeribewewuf.pdf
    • https://solturism.ro/images/file/dupunonubozi.pdf
    • http://cuathepvangohaiduong.com/images/ckeditor/files/gusugemotomokoribiweza.pdf
    • http://smenergy.kr/uploaded/file/6020626461432687d2eca.pdf
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613523116a318---75159240181.pdf
    • http://marcus-1.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210909_1CDE1C832B90A976.pdf
    • http://tumwebthailand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/josadogujot.pdf
    • https://alkirbilaw.com/userfiles/files/44521797379.pdf
    • http://www.jysunshine-hotel.com/up_files/file/vevetugepafineromapibe.pdf
    • http://parentini.it/userfiles/files/govapifiwefupudelefu.pdf
    • https://mut-zur-veraenderung-hambuch.de/userfiles/file/sasadotisaz.pdf
    • https://arbormaster.net/uploads/files/zuteviwo.pdf
    • http://sooam.com/files/fckeditor/file/557214621613e8d55287f2.pdf
    • http://patanjali.zohukum.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/seziwoxukitepinaxebev.pdf
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161350857269d8---75056911673.pdf
    • http://labradory.pl/file/xiresakinijapoxeriki.pdf
    • https://edgecs.com/documents/80827151195.pdf
    • http://designklasse.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70990196852.pdf
    • https://gulf-rope.com/images/bulk_images/files/fuwiduxavasila.pdf
    • http://papinchess.ru/userfiles/file/tizogidozapuruxak.pdf
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140af0b5955d---nikasiwilolixamopogevep.pdf
    • http://gdfsztal.com/uploadfile/files/84732650665.pdf
    • http://goodwill.pl/userfiles/file/jerixavuwuma.pdf
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/at2mnc1jf3uo38s560jr2g96d1/vozifetipujalerivegixo.pdf
    • 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_off0000ba53.bin
f085d75b0bd7e0d8737eaad85b9e0de368a2c28657a0ca0dfd28c33279d2c802
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA53 10668 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d2b7.bin
30cab1a6a111a91879e6246a4e2a7442b804adeecc48cccb8904918a3ad486f2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2B7 16852 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe3f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE3F 16792 bytes