Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a53e508ad47fc6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.5 KB Created: 2021-09-13 23:17:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7828fa8782b9672054da43f82e27c554 SHA-1: 0f0e7857735a724d6de557344a237fc99693c6a9 SHA-256: 0a53e508ad47fc6dbf300bb5e2b88bd3a3386315d111910c2265be666b59ac99
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 a large number of links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm or SEO spamming operation. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the nature of the URLs indicate a high likelihood of malicious redirection or payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://strahyi.ru/images/file/kalamekavitukitu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://theeultimatenetworker.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jolonapefavofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafemocion.com/userfiles/file/28760278950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nature-revive.org/files/file/batemutiwemor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ng2etqvqk42o27n1g7s8an9mis/75024294978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinahk-ip.com/chinahk_ip/html/files/editor/file/dakujivovosodipun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://picassogift.com/Uploadfiles/files/nakotogunawofemeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chhattisgarhsanskritboard.in/sharpinstitute/images/files/4697566457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdsale.org.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ratularuxuzezowelunizoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luligang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8033474748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kirbas.com/img/uploaded/file/fozukigafotupuwoxoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pushtypathshala.com/demo/aims/files/images/files/14489820693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07a68de305c28e164c533779b9f79b4e/77699265094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kesifveotesi.com/files/13583869103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161309175f0f21---zeserafokekozuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gyndoktors.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kopalanapixenaxenomalezir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bharatiyabhashaparishad.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63892229363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hk-delight.com/UploadFiles/file/zekikogeroxubibokadej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tspinstruments.com/cache/fck_files/file/kemet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tortugafilms.ca/adminfiles/file/varowaxine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutbephottaihaiphong24h.com/upload/files/13351071391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=aimbot+in+fortnite+pcPDF 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_off0000ad44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD44 10388 bytes
SHA-256: b41a085d7214b5f6aac32368c0b4c10e990475ea9adeeff263f7468d0236d777
font_01_sfnt_off0000c485.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC485 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000dc97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC97 14604 bytes
SHA-256: 8f08648be8a99f4fead25e6133bb91f81b825aeaacff6ba5eaf03355dd1f5ae4