Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a0179a8dae2157f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-10-01 13:54:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 9a7016b737fcadeef45706a6ac42041f SHA-1: 2077854827026e6c4ebbd31f471fb8577bea1723 SHA-256: 0a0179a8dae2157f9727c7dc9270950993b02e6a9a40afdccbd0861884a379bd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=my+phone+is+getting+pop+up+ads PDF link annotation
    • https://noticky.net/akce/fotky/file/28989990281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giritrademark.com/content_files/files/tujixukulasutatavep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izyskately.ru/foto/ck/files/31324936235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tekizolasyon.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mopagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precisao.org/files/files/43805517406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3rproject.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/julaselar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golfvillageonline.com/userfiles/file/tonadakobarozijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galettedesrois.hu/userfiles/file/juzonowiwivezesavis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://folientastaturen.pl/_data/file/belasawojeworuzap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161527481a83a7---37916909925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strahyi.ru/images/file/nidoganipuxoketorevisike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://812423.situshoki1.com/contents/files/jakoxiser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweepinstyle.com/userfiles/file/kalowaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thomas-zigon.de/images/file/xuvuvep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konyaalotaksi.com/userfiles/file/fofilezosagodaxafuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjcounsel.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wukarilojovojexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.iimranchi.ac.in/ckfinder/uploads/userfiles/files/libizukibixotusaxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f556a0126617f76ac6379b278f416580/74827634916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubesealer.com/uploaded/file/32370417661397ad7cf264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-21/20210921195618125497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--3e0b556bhrbowi6undva.com/ckupload/files/kigopomipigixatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyerialaplaza.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49383422519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ea975f3c01---25013834179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuspsurgeons.com/userfiles/file/totinijaxonipakedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asude.istanbul/ck_images/files/nexosekimekeve.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_off0000b39d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB39D 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 9bfc4c7aed4c535a990e8ba27d407a301fdc0a3ca9256216b130e83c8a389099
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC11 16260 bytes
SHA-256: 82598f4b81afa5276949658f7c8e4f5056d00d2fa402956f01dcd33775649822
font_02_sfnt_off0000f56f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF56F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1