Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0907731153a0b067…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.9 KB Created: 2021-07-01 22:16:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 1c13d8527f2b1a622a5e19a0941092fd SHA-1: 6f827314c3d93af5b8dbcaf2171308a54617af8e SHA-256: 0907731153a0b06759ed91381d3b4f8d0fe6c5f4e980907a09364373ac34d060
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the detected threat suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, aligning with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=reno+wilson+on+cosby+show PDF link annotation
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1740c5ed21---susuwetirabupobezan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69a2d98548cd456ad26bb7f4f1cf3d18/vojiraxefututesun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64bd0388b12f69042eea0513531ed19a/8859228628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c858ca1c160---vazup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhuaduongnhapkhauaz.info/upload/files/bubodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32fab644795df50fd43cea105113fcdd/23211404908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovalpolycoats.com/media/kilasixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaongonmaiphuong.vn/webroot/img/files/fawafar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pehorjj46idbbomk2470kv2s67/dokinogakofiwujefetep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cc244aa93bccad78d444e8ab96eb887/20246232763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c116141d5c3---jerufenenop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607182ad706a1---16149504165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://horlickhigh61.com/clients/a/ab/ab3fb267cc30d45b98f460a20cee0b8d/File/24467158603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siltherm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10306335870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valdhans.cz/userfiles/file/54531745176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/740106dc572dc63b8d1c13a7afddf9f2/97074123275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a21a0b06402---56595859326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2eb042b5d9e96777b52687443532e221/68516140850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f34994c5a2---20192192737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c9c0443794---19546735222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomaszskiba.com/userfiles/file/11783426319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca0634b5bd---gurewimatewawatum.pdfIn 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://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_off00010fb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FB7 10352 bytes
SHA-256: 0168893549bcb58957806263bfff54bbc867c282ef6c62c718189e394f8a516a
font_01_sfnt_off00012714.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12714 17924 bytes
SHA-256: edb060ce04849ed476f0e5cacc4752c3676733e0f3b53f04d54d1cc0339f62a0
font_02_sfnt_off00015661.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15661 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1