Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a2c7165808f3018…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 07:51:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 8e38306dbf1ba8725ac97b12c9fb252d SHA-1: 5488cb3652335aa9783a02899f31fc36c011cb86 SHA-256: 0a2c7165808f301865d38e50ab11995a16574e4dfec1cdbf53d04d4a983bcbdc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links are designed to lure users into clicking them, potentially leading to further malicious content or downloads. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, consistent with phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

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://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8886e0a5ddf93840f7d87f3253701c95/94790395665.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rydelko.eu/userfiles/file/romomuvexoxozemeserixuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k8dffc6fs3jf6t3lnp7v2t3i43/498260268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://someteme.com/archivos/_20210721165016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-6/file/97497017957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d35b40217c4---81495631192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://color-gateway.com/userfiles/file/52264458771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b9a576c0b4---92169186095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c12de301a22aaf8eef986d50b36100f/78273991603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebelhotel.ru/images/news/file/mizeburokelidemudabaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/20898527601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lctrading-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nototamixetuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cab5a530a66dc956217ed8e03237f4f/difogufew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c453c611032---67926046017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovator.cz/files/file/xazimumigude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogadosaguilar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sazabexesenopegifag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallymine-chicago.com/clients/867610/File/36595185288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2cexpressdemo.com/userfiles/file/23899010315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valserve.in/web/k/main_admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pemuzididoduxafobole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efficimm.fr/userfiles/files/98406583168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611de3452328a---59201734747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trineckevzdelavani.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15376344935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samsung-service-center.ru/uploads/files/gujevegewipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visit-pune.com/userfiles/file/botujuxikesefesiwopitote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brianhaymore.com/images/e/file/50752337721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=worksheet+present+simple+questionsPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d9b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1C2 19064 bytes
SHA-256: 5dfff9493a09d93a6be0acaf855e8fe78b87ce4c5c3abb20cfed30d810e85bf8
font_02_sfnt_off000110ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110EC 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 648910a310d7bf0b5c18f2052e2f9b4243115a839af5a02383e3ce8bcc82805a
font_03_sfnt_off00012938.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12938 17016 bytes
SHA-256: bf292561826987a5dbf5b0ac644aca29c04ebf601f6bae45c94ef64a12479a85