Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a066d5f9c842845…

MALICIOUS

PDF

274.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 04:19:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 5b37c347f2ecc010041c53455ea87f0d SHA-1: e78606a172b5fca7e83d9db6c7e5e47b9832ee9e SHA-256: 0a066d5f9c84284500a8e43620aa9e22412b03bbee7d897f1911bca9e689c156
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a phishing lure, specifically a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The primary IOC is a URL hosted on a compromised site, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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.
  • 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://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebd2825279399e64c5417440f70c8b29/jufebevurefamusegezotu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609df2676f29a---navekabowagefob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14458c9291f17d76688c3f339c7cc8d3/kofinujuziwipakezefites.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fablab808.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/jefaruxumaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalrep.com/userfiles/files/1915819099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/et9n1mtrc77niajjk7286gnv7k/famokijusitub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/konojaxuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipic.vn/userfiles/file/kerazezaletadugagun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corpusbg.com/files/fck/file/71024254644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wineart.online/userfiles/file/14836823991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ajg5kvlk59pm8f8ufs697tiqkk/23791541364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vicotelecom.vn/static/source/images/file/wosolokosugupimaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c77adf5c31e---vejibiniduketagavararo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alt-1c.ru/userfiles/file/43033566210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ef91c2e87---vositadizuxokarowejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7c4566f75---96424322641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/fumetezugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17cfed032ebdbd9481347218e9914de3/nebupef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=law+offices+of+bryan+musgravePDF 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_off0003d429.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3D429 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0003ec3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3EC3B 19892 bytes
SHA-256: 4ec7e16cde265e4bf7824be02645aecae29d760cc8ba6b9e9b426af283df28e7
font_02_sfnt_off000420ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x420AB 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 528437c504a62ad163ab6a1253b8cb20fcfb9ba5e8d9f800bcb81c121f5b15d1