Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a71dd89053d45a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 00:14:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 7b53fdcfdff3fce811ce3ab145320152 SHA-1: 3e315e068a680a35afbfd51e822d24a3b48c0288 SHA-256: 0a71dd89053d45a0e7952734653e5254c3b61c0cde0cf9af276f92c9c4a80355
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains. The primary function appears to be directing users to potentially malicious external sites, consistent with phishing or malware distribution lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://dentherapia.hu/files/file/18197780583.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vicotelecom.vn/static/source/images/file/sovivodoxizafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764339a51cf---wagalutojunisujomodowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlnsk.ru/uploads/file/vuzemabazemikem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shiokerbau1.com/contents//files/rafotisovevuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bacvietexpress.com/upload/userfiles/files/9723381788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160976f529d718---26547745946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highdesertrent.com/newsite//images/uploads/file/vemawigavuwigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kilincsweb.hu/fileok/file/kerosokawomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/83594759534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1947ecb5d5d55f57b4015b6efeb58faf/87604469720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b1mrjlikbrak69p13bclkejup/37515662788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbac96c36b---kurasuwewuzisob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogotowienaukowe.com/Upload/file/88405212388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kernenshepler.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/feged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wrd13.com/force/file/2300879141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b093863d529---mosoxazukozosewulawer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0v6v4tmasi69ee1nnuh3opjete/gosukarejotomonelibusak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuhocxuatnhapkhau.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/duvikoxejebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4gs2hku60rptaj6r08nd9bsg1/vozaxejabanivesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094887a5f1bd---zutobukosegodujelelozive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=who+is+the+protagonist+in+the+giverPDF 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_off0000e8bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8BF 17668 bytes
SHA-256: 04279c0fb9b3e89d55c0ad44f390aadf630765a9bcc9df1cca8d4e8c07f566c8
font_01_sfnt_off0001169d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1169D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012eb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EB4 10544 bytes
SHA-256: b53e8a5136fc9b9e4c32b66ec6c3f3ea8ea42ad1c366a4c6e216038fe05a52be