Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a5a45c814a3f72d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-06-17 19:18:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 9e2a97d8ccdb6fabaa5e847acc312bc9 SHA-1: d7135a862fa37e2a26c52031f3e6a1737790f194 SHA-256: 0a5a45c814a3f72d5bbda4f46ba41b626af3f4e44d354f951cec8b16fe1aaf5a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of a ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and ML classifier flagging further supports its malicious nature. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to watching a movie, which is likely a pretext to drive users to malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=phir+bhi+dil+hai+hindustani+full+movie+watch PDF link annotation
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/23824162698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/xixogorivugutowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/28894378974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bomtvplus.com/data/board/file/20210519094828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949fc79b6e0---sutavunevujef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.herewardcarpets.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m8j7jjrtlv4q45p0gtjl2geu2c/83827395335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4517ab2e06441d19545d7d1bd4d25219/zutupunavumakagimifato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a01b461b56f---86253362363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r94jesaabfrlbr36n0hn3ucmbh/14284224634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b8fbb720f93bf1281d961efa412a658/9818306778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/33317612408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b67ab95ecfb2f24cd17b356a0a8bfd3a/34473188846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1bea2137a5---dufaxirojarativoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asset-books.com/userfiles/file/sidovowivizix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de3a2dfc9c3bcd57811186ee50d3c0e7/ragixolerijubofumutofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c114b9c85a6---mupubuxiduk.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_off0000d2ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2FF 5556 bytes
SHA-256: 0882f94768a6e6b9666e5c2b24fb3d3e5501f8f9adc8b63d1f84157c3937d35b
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5CC 11112 bytes
SHA-256: 403de912b9bcd565f3a69c00b49cacf2ad7aa10e7b1137a81452ce83f667b853
font_02_sfnt_off00010a88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A88 16092 bytes
SHA-256: e9fe716c2abc985b12a899a49d5539e4e8be1b56d50c083b30290d85a2a7c848