Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a5020ba797f94f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-06-12 22:14:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: e51506cda9f2f28862c74caaf0031a14 SHA-1: 9f77dfc773841ae7c65f94ffd90c5710ce8549ad SHA-256: 0a5020ba797f94f1ddf807ca4aede3a0a2264ae6c5c04f102d27bb8ab77cd146
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be related to academic content, likely a pretext to disguise the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+difference+between+present+perfect+simple+and+continuous PDF link annotation
    • http://teenaramainc.org/clients/875997/File/27579233240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lav70lrbc60eb7m01fjacfuafp/nipedovimobuxaguzokiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ef34b272fb---6581758569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b5392bc07---kadototolinavokewegub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mini-garden.ru/userfiles/file/41068508643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mdf4jqqlrcgv9kemo0bt8js33n/jidamora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bcd220882bd90c5d15071f185611a9f/42024636132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076bda7bf224---xipukaxirezogot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ro2hc92rmucnidoaoh9d2bek3q/8025600502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbc8b647bb8---takevapolut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095c659371fe---bakowipedoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8003642f3b61924f54be78b24109f06f/nujakuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609538c313fe5---lilokulisufuxigama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotossc.pl/_files/file/sisikexipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d47ed383f7faa30f30416363034cc90d/rewiken.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000e46a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE46A 5576 bytes
SHA-256: 786d79225b9a9ef48def3b8bb45098291a74990f4d8b8e0556cc2f52d86315a0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f742.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF742 10808 bytes
SHA-256: ed36fb8cd0349fab7873b887e04f62118d3c36e4c0fbcc12631bacd73ddce13f
font_02_sfnt_off00011c81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C81 16060 bytes
SHA-256: d1a84ba8f0e4a827a048d387db8dd5dae3538f1c7e72415b16af587a9947cdc7