Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a1934ba2fd6d6e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-07-16 20:44:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 04c409e11aebe64a0135a38cda73a062 SHA-1: 349fd3cccc8b69cfee102e5850a772a509fc73c8 SHA-256: 0a1934ba2fd6d6e43cf72dc22bc66472768626ec7ac80da052cc8600e71764c0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely to obscure the ultimate destination and evade detection. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

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://oncallanatomist.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zonafubenunibupox.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cuakeobinhduong.com/upload/files/riliworewigal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daiichigroup.net/uploads/news_file/913283486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-eko.eu/files/file/vumiwufaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenvanhuongloc.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/40972468939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095d2d07a594---13692140817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://footstepfloor.com/upfiles/files/67175656515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba3564d39a---tagazelarozopizaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://almar-bus.pl/userfiles/file/19412111176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086046bc664f---12929146238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naucseto.cz/storage/50063655196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucarrorentacar.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26392889571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160828600477a8---30226576284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c607bd1a656---51534745682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607545765bed0---razatoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ib6lfgo3mha1c80t7rt5c6l616/sagamivimajuzudukefuzegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/84069690061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driscollandgibson.com/images/edit_images/file/16745062129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a691582606e---nunovesuwisubegasamufofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e4cc70a6a270889e26db41ac5e73ba7/magumibapova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movesforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2vrpk4mqujtrdtg03ioj9ubbg3/jugigoxax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumusjitu.com/contents//files/tipilurivuvumatim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/89398539472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=sin+on+the+unit+circlePDF 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_off0000e3ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3EF 10172 bytes
SHA-256: c8cf4ab67eec5f738c61f3900833b4cdedebcc638769316da107475b7e96336c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA97 18272 bytes
SHA-256: eee54b2fd67bda37b7b5f167d109ae3a0d78069bd7cf430dd438e52d2fad2058
font_02_sfnt_off00012a76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A76 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1