Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a302778a32d85e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-19 04:42:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0369ecbe362b77e5635d654759372362 SHA-1: 22e5d56665d54971baa77113600a0874045dad87 SHA-256: 0a302778a32d85e8b08803d21904804140b1cdc27f6b1fb2ff5b2e9edada943c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to various domains, some of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9887

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
  • 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://sacmacbook.net/userfiles/file/38408182534.pdf
    • https://supermagnum-bg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sixitumumafalawefin.pdf
    • http://belly.bpv.su/content/files/files/18529348355.pdf
    • https://nenmongdangquang.com/upload/files/7627856161.pdf
    • http://www.dawnrotaryclub.tw/UserFiles/files/kaxorirekerabale.pdf
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42tpucphurjma3q2nbi6705r21/xeratotupuzub.pdf
    • http://xn--o39a91gvwm83kbsn.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210916_073C1ABC332A94FE.pdf
    • https://dichvumoinoi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tipif.pdf
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/357344273.pdf
    • http://erdbau-rauch.at/zafiv.pdf
    • https://decisionstogo.com/fck_image/file/21498426706.pdf
    • http://gojjang.com/uploads/files/87478403723.pdf
    • http://thaisomboonautopart.com/userfiles/files/visikarosekep.pdf
    • https://mmoxx.mn/userfiles/files/delidivumilivaxixizete.pdf
    • http://hotelrefah4ter.ir/basefile/hotelrefah4terir/files/25701834708.pdf
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a05ce6d46339fbebe44408139d8499e/12147312215.pdf
    • https://nucamsa.es/userfiles/files/jitorisadeximibisatagom.pdf
    • http://tanphatinst.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/80772765127.pdf
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/26676109185.pdf
    • http://airelimpio.mx/img/editor/file/duvowafogow.pdf
    • http://xn--djr00fsyfv0o5qgy9u.net/filespath/files/20210919080412.pdf
    • http://elite-nails.pl/Upload/file/81169678973.pdf
    • http://ji-tien.com/userfiles/file/64002723043.pdf
    • http://pinturasoltra.com/images/slider/files/79242212706.pdf
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17a364d8b03e612fce1b42261050d343/56703466457.pdf
    • https://asi-filter.pl/files/file/zoxiweridakiwomodonevizo.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=mulan+2020+live+stream
    • https://rt9.rspo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tupokotujanamonenabe.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000df83.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF83 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f795.bin
9ca4cb924d123b5f6d2a5aab3e0e6730f5c3c54bdc750c4016f69ba98275e5b4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF795 17604 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012563.bin
60982d8b0a3f3da62a6f5c4566f98a3a3cd44e2367dcea51a4840f65c4131a0f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12563 10552 bytes