Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a7bfce5eb184a86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-13 02:05:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 7e1b61fb654a784ea958f1ccb59724da SHA-1: 54324149bb3e1aa9eb216a3003ce04805b0591ba SHA-256: 0a7bfce5eb184a86cd6ce59f168adad8ac01226c98b3ab7585b5e423d5e84de2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on potentially compromised CMS uploads. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristic strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://sindonis.com/userfiles/file/lifebupen.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://shiphangnhanh.net/uploads/image/files/jifemewimesusewubag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160986cec4b5ce---54761706722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/251860752db746ab9114ea91cf6b4513/99578768212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosadistanciayonline.com/medios//files/5439640841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tho0898a4eocrharu9lqpshcs7/lomusixuwuwotinagor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sivam.pl/files/file/2850175433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artospace.com/pics/file/xijakukanefojuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nadiadsa.org/userfiles/file/nedonajaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veraschwemmle.de/fckdata/file/joporeropetaworojowuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blpest.com/UserFiles/file/bebovuxawov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sellmysayarah.com/userfiles/files/64168997029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be4fc07f4a59162317b73a07fdc07d31/86364411178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioambienteterritorio.it/userfiles/files/10641978633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rcp-ranstadt.us/files/guzaweferotukurexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuquytravel.com/nguyenvanlinh/files/91716625310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/495197a47d3431567b77ebee4a56a763/kezekubefim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tebsc.com/clients/84181/File/ligiroded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88bfb3372bddd9b0fb995c66b1158c66/punuzoxameraled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cc871dfd0c4cd21db68c0e77d85f745/80867493791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cnr56ofeqspoj4ldat65ctctsa/patimatowawawazomumud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160986a169f491---taninudus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f27999ee8---fotowaderupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomeng.com/uploads/48782581394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c98b087076c333e56d12a356d646cbb1/8182423004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wendi101.com/userfiles/file/10155067403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bfb746a4a7---83986891904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=real+estate+builders+near+mePDF 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_off0000eb92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB92 17444 bytes
SHA-256: 75d2cc5c688856b56e9467f1621959cbce03a9142f4f47faf7c6d31f518bdd10
font_01_sfnt_off00011951.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11951 10572 bytes
SHA-256: e0289e8951b99d342c7af0a5084a90619427b07037361b54ac8f300c42d118dd
font_02_sfnt_off00013160.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13160 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1