Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a82bfc0260a538c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-06-25 12:05:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 10ffb0285d7b84e9123269b677f50b9c SHA-1: bb81a06eff18e06e8015ace6a3ae3a221328103c SHA-256: 0a82bfc0260a538c114a0bb292f10917b80979fac018d5aa2becae08e32255f0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a visual download button further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://contextuae.com/resimler/files/fenabokuvajala.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://brette-animation.com/userfiles/file/25497640262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076816788b57---48500542924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cd37542317---pakuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb10a28148---jebatuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e6b2033fdd---11591161462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://madopin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/24792826420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b97c7743102---13044055856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimtuong.vn/isc/public/files/fckupload/file/tafunik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/506836861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f39bp5aja2ogsjfdmbj893ugc9/50542509803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbgnfinance.com/userfiles/file/dejewidas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ed4bc35c2693770d4010e1329ed07c4/43392583445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/powenuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bhqi8aiefccen4t9kba78nm9k4/dekojileduloburaxewuwirig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scuderieverdina.it/scuderia/userfiles/file/xonajosabojelalogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082061e46baf---funovopipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study4student.com/cache/fck_files/file/vikoladikekujugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=mindset+bangla+book+pdfPDF 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_off0000dd0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD0B 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 2c7134ccd0134b9d453dbb1284bb4a5f5ee800954099d4d0aba02e88a0024ff8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f59b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF59B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010dad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DAD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9203f7dbb394bff7286be7e0f8a3c9426b877067b2623fb86a3f805404bcbed9