Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a3a368f5dbd3edc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-09-10 20:46:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 676ed7b178554029edf77b26f4ec6612 SHA-1: 9ed3b9bcdb185d8fedff7e2fca8efbbd18235b43 SHA-256: 0a3a368f5dbd3edcd2860e517d02c5cc6e1cbed386aec47d1ad0e7baa915bce7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to other PDF files hosted on compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 http://brucemayrockinstitute.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/68388869187.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ttc-investco.com/img/files/votafakenululawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenagro.com/sites/default/files/file/41285870929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heatexchangersolution.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-3/20210903152138725163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karlschool.org/uploads/files/202109092138049781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc020.com/userfiles/file/20210901170048_uljr4d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpiezasinasel.com/userfiles/files/lobizetawexagukokub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92258567be7c39cf4969c3663c19ba19/60873637021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaprosmart.com/userfiles/files/91655180477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-ssuances.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/waropukadume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marwaservicecenter.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/rerube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psyforyou.nl/upload/fckeditor/file/gogafugibope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wiz-fac.com/uploadImg/file/nosisodesekule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linza-market.ru/upload/files/77224646136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://101doctor.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/613988de3f79c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkxhjfc.ltd/uploads/files/20210908044722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stayinbranson.com/ckfinder/triplebuserfiles/file/64349886361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://numen-wow.com/userfiles/cloud/files/11424630655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132e5ca96c78---zetulimabaripiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://opsclown.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gaperovinubelunuwoziwixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://breedlife.com/upload/files/juperujixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01241faf472872e019dc6f0a66b22d58/94386550548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=download+extreme+car+driving+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000bc61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC61 15612 bytes
SHA-256: d363af6f306f189b137e05824371149c451bfcc6b1051c70b8edb72d75c2dc3b
font_01_sfnt_off0000e40f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE40F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC26 11036 bytes
SHA-256: 83bd506ca98c9abe141eff890577c4c89fda26c8a19b0abea54adfd84a1563af