Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a15ef20d9d06ebd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.6 KB Created: 2021-06-19 12:32:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: fad86f6a7ef5e0790ae82ad1aae86d89 SHA-1: d7aef08a0aab5f01eb152c3bd925939c55afe80c SHA-256: 0a15ef20d9d06ebd27839ebe7b0c871ebaf7d54464001f1b690e143f2246e9eb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a lure to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 http://fatamorgana.fr/uploads/assets/file/mejosarakig.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b99a2577d19f2dfa6ffced668a415143/48555049099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ced56bfaa5---49484540217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1a4c24a965---70604913234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushimenifee.com/uploads/files/bavixexoxuvofitamor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bde1d3f977e61a2c6032e9827a923e60/savepesotajezirujibuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02a81c6efb186a3f20199b212c914c09/53382005400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c95f4449e---kasigekugijuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160749575381a6---43340932553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kgmda.com/upload/files/21239115646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1utilaje.ro/mm/file/99487545100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perles-del-beya.com/userfiles/file/sezuviwunonurafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ezibra.pl/upload//file/dejepudulovog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e463bbd7cabd0a68d8b30c7fd1f5ffe2/kidogoguna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160774d155fe18---13508160391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81ef3c346deb09c0fe92919371b096bd/30547464819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8b0ff46d9a0053a4f46a1412eed7f0d/pusafun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fe4931d63cb964225d59bc3be51795c/28914712817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=programming+in+c+kochan+pdfPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c09e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC09E 5016 bytes
SHA-256: 6f9989832d68dd277f083b022e36e942fd3b9b7b92ea808f76fb8035f96afc73
font_01_sfnt_off0000d16a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD16A 11140 bytes
SHA-256: 56c261a0078d82425b81036a96af8cdef423efbcdc58587674cefcf6ff76b6f8
font_02_sfnt_off0000f6f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6F5 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c