Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a41f3aa3f6ace88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.2 KB Created: 2021-06-10 09:09:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: bbaba4cb68411d39e30c9955a7623913 SHA-1: 8d608984791f28b86c287fa3eb31d4a04ea261de SHA-256: 0a41f3aa3f6ace880b37117daa36d9a5bada37fd375a1877c35ff253060526b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters suggests a phishing or SEO manipulation attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=airtel+kursi+tarjuma PDF link annotation
    • http://canvangdientu.com/images/file/guxedopixinugazatita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.cn/upfiles/file/37370734099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/94066961737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da54061bbe7584ca6da84e9a697579cd/gusekaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5e32abf78---punizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamcc.com/UserFiles/files/32077595540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fee90b8b9a5b6d533d56d49d746b822f/biferetozopopujuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rmq6sqf70ponfhvrb7c366erc5/tewexududizijodixed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ca225ecd34---fipupirogibatofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad7252bd38c---55731719657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c7a020c99b---lejulorepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7a71bda7c87659dee101f1f0cdfca8e/85222060077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/936ra9sairmbr24fnnlhek75ah/murijilifagivolijapaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43ecb545604939a8c1e03e974f0b5989/visaduxiduse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off000156b5.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x156B5 26280 bytes
SHA-256: be4de19c44b54e367c8046567613e92e0b52c1aba4cc79a4d7766d50fd7a69f1
font_00_sfnt_off00010cba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CBA 7000 bytes
SHA-256: 31fb927a365da626fc1525ccd1d5164c31c30c8f5477befed2477ad21dbdb5d3
font_01_sfnt_off00011e4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E4F 4960 bytes
SHA-256: 76b615542301a73baf198693f31f59cebd330459ea7cd371a24bec91f1ddcbb7
font_02_sfnt_off00012f17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F17 12192 bytes
SHA-256: 745f76c5a113b284d5dd282502a58cad0c20d8eec9973a72e31ac5c62f1bf85d

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