Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a23db4c4a16e300…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-08-10 03:14:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 11e9dae3cba88fbc2d93728a10da1127 SHA-1: ca4b47660f44786f8739a7e234398c3ff1c96db0 SHA-256: 0a23db4c4a16e30086ff19dbb4fc04e0c79785ccb2e36bc80383a0c2c6b121f9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external PDF files, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm designed to obscure the true destination. The presence of a visual download button lure further supports a phishing or malicious download attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=candy+crush+soda+mod+apk+boosters PDF link annotation
    • https://floridainvestment.cz/files/file/28485825905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607047ec61dbe---bogajirovomuxafos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cba36099a5c---21631473190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artepcb.com/upload/files/61772294412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mokshadhamnepal.org/userfiles/files/73031753553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jxloanchien.com/style/postimage/file/getubesewafekolajaremarad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inverpalmas.com/aym_image/files/setejinuliwuluwutesaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85cbf4c61f83ebf01ba45bc0f9da44fe/43578570884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4948a31ec4---74809463422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentistvanpatika.hu/upload/file/bapuditerufezulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609431171a03d---36768796862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc.soo.jp/file/98794739153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bad759e4f73---novaxufufunurano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd4af86a44---sanemowenomirelanekafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resetimpianti.it/reset/public/file/xinavibizevutefupuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://navigator-nsk.ru/userfiles/file/41815567782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05h5bdkcud4suqk76cuk6linu7/39531431773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyteepee.com/uploadfiles/file/210629222835693233gn7011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aeap.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22795903499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quatden.vn/webroot/img/files/sujav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3efb10f5ba---bajuzurid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e553d8db83be5818a414fd1ee2c43c4/zisakabamolitotup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608100916d954---dutizutebad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scea.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1418285091.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_off0000e0a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0A8 20212 bytes
SHA-256: 045b8abc7992f6f247c183e2fdf8ff56500308cc96e06a77277a170a43a13e0d
font_01_sfnt_off000114f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114F2 11116 bytes
SHA-256: 57a0064a852505c8586a8bc30481b1e45a88100c7a5813d06710831491f0e411
font_02_sfnt_off00012e90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1