Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a3f923d63d4e782…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 06:03:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 0413337a16c301042a4acf81ab03c860 SHA-1: a6a0383c07315516b25a30b6ffaa0e283a7a39b7 SHA-256: 0a3f923d63d4e782aab6e98ced27f151ea7bb752d52b0aacb263bd68b1812e42
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the true destination. The presence of numerous unknown URLs indicates a distribution network designed to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080446be7194---36367135483.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dichvugiayphep.biz/upload/ck/files/5045791708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8d1c3235b4b2a9b09f4b2902520a6b8/37280235155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///66847514373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608507911feb3---24312693228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinical-pain.com/pds/userfiles/files/11237597565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stalbeckers.nl/userfiles/image/file/gogoxukalatirovukekimudem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markone-tools.com/upload/files/jurugolimigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e86ffc8784---wazal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56ca8f492ac0d840bb95900acb7ee057/2194369774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatugigo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/navomaluvadogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-21/20210721031946771064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abc339d455e---48926323267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb24e2f11f0---jetewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810a9cf300e---zuliva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dixietemporarystorage.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fdb3e807bd3a55445b5647a48f86702/jabolig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160994302b4ed3---sepajer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51f5b01c823929a9786956c5cae107b0/fasovotutuderijesovif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf4426a2e90---zuzatidodixafawum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sztarmedia.hu/_user/file/98059022886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexdisinfestazioni.com/userfiles/files/91761059373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a8fgq0tnkcnndn5hbmeqfbg1g/parulukirumux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weberstellen.ch/userfiles/file/58724591181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kadernictvo-svetlana.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/23312363597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9802a958ae386492a07f27ae6b0ece9/vipuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=2003+cadillac+escalade+service+manualPDF 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_off0000d8c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8C4 17960 bytes
SHA-256: d2125e8539160ff476559ede913071fa77dcee6b14249b069e98b658b4eacb33
font_01_sfnt_off000107bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107BF 10796 bytes
SHA-256: dcf6dcf154a8913fc5f5f20cf1bb04a5c1c8ab91cdca2919c2935356b017f346
font_02_sfnt_off000120aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1