Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a35b5b61b18a36a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-08-12 10:57:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 02759a9ca9922941652cd3c9261697a6 SHA-1: 8f976d29519e1def7adbac02bfb1241af7209781 SHA-256: 0a35b5b61b18a36a830b123f734b7b19afd5cc5a034ea9da33117477c912a4ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9938

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 https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=statistics+for+business+and+economics+14th+edition+anderson PDF link annotation
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a08e8f12f92---69539780498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b3d00b8f38---94104413904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://komunalno-vrgorac.hr/files/2515164043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18m75m0r1nu5e8t9rm9441padg/depuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhuoer.ltd/userfiles/file/xamifabex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledins.lv/cms/file/mefejofitigotepuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ee3574e9501ae52b9c28177ba12d52c/jijufuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1f437d74db01c2038e7538fcc9657e1/26965455813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943afbac49b---pufitaxanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2b67b72348---radav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73bf741eed2dfce88b3011797bf4d759/vulivanifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161134ffcd193f---54133296594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0baaae408e---6215578724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunjewelsonline.com/userfiles/file/59036038964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9374fb5bb1---faxufoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0f4cd91556---96599321498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d00ca20500a48f65fb824f9a90eb78d/12906055248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merklink.nl/site/data/ws/files/noloruvudunixejezupub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/kigemafetabukobopimizas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca129a1a0e46ae04be6a62156eccd448/65824102905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veoguidecostarica.com/ci/userfiles/files/33726904485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/lemafemubaxoregeribojolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/11373844752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pobierzplik.pl/uploads/files/45436297395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f260d01215d---manozewatasanifowede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92be490e29c30b50138cc4094148490e/28635828474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirpub.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8127052201.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_off0000d561.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD561 19060 bytes
SHA-256: 2468a482271869e0a44e20daae78e3c986cad880dcb7cd230a7f8863ba523f5b
font_01_sfnt_off000106af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106AF 11140 bytes
SHA-256: 376a0d0455d957037368e958cdc0c3d53eabfc634dd8c940e854b1bb58c9abcc
font_02_sfnt_off00012096.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12096 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1