Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0380f7a690967f43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-08-04 23:30:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 7baff745c76617014f88bee4b1a02a79 SHA-1: d11eb5b3c0c5e94e8405060d38fe16f5f5488ef8 SHA-256: 0380f7a690967f434b7facbeefbab5484c35d437b450ecba46b67a71acd93681
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9944

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 http://www.samlab.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9n1j7nehe600fenfrkjv9v30u/fawigol.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://coyada.com/up_images/up_images/tinaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pmob96u3f5sel2t0seb6avl845/57485596488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7uannstkng2h8uf9av6cr2j4of/36169313855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cokhivietuc.com/img-vietuc/files/29384069517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a26ec59006a8e648140fc8376b480f7/98456187211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mppscstudy.com/admin/usercontent/file/80755201982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blessingsngo.in/userfiles/files/97740140995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jfmcsqf0ka8b37011rqgnfj8ol/83776707966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-zzld.com/uploadfile/file///2021072805264883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b91e0306b34---lewixagoturubuwat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://360clothing.in/home/www360cl/public_html/uploads/images/files/87304639480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saigondome.com/uploads/userfiles/file/rowojibabipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab3ce7a3588bc76b9fd59673338b132f/zejimazidepivesilonatod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ok-poland.com/userfiles/file/zifufenofezedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tornado69.com/clients/40643/File/8071162029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverthesky.it/file/59915359586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eab690fa65---59275202992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32d01676b1986773756c2f949d1fba21/selibopotixelosigupole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e4c4cd8a0bda8feebc4d2b972b43912/82774260453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2a5371a510---xikexudonosavibuvumipeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f179cf9e474---lotowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akamercedes.com/images/uploads/files/25772744495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863788952c9---41502560209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldara-latinoamerica.com/userfiles/file/14578391356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dagmare.de/userfiles/file/96723331538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+another+term+for+celestialPDF 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_off0000df22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF22 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f739.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF739 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 2c3b3191ecd3eaf31161a689c6c6b2a871430457975e4cb74c169221f4d56eda
font_02_sfnt_off00010f40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F40 17572 bytes
SHA-256: 895c64352622584911f43a23828bbe9409e018e66a7886aa693eef9d2b02c776