Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a84e75dcc68fe9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-20 06:56:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 589fe22ae61a64765edf1d1eab88d9b2 SHA-1: 989fb37ef88a670d1baf027975919f44b0b0d054 SHA-256: 0a84e75dcc68fe9b09d783e4829420b57e750a5c51df38ac2f9108ab88524607
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress uploads or disposable domains. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic suggests a lure to trick users into clicking these links, potentially leading to further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/19720240547.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://texigo.tw/upfile/files/2021/09/16/woxijipovokirefifaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8108650225058c1063c5f30229fa4663/12514334847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaoduocvn.com/userfiles/image/file/93289746566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bd1b42d2a3---17759102913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lanaecoloridabruzzo.it/userfiles/file/23014568503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zensushidanapoint.com/uploads/files/xepiwelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1fa69e7affbdecce86f3d9590c49294/52447825143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscowfashion.net/content/xuploadimages/file/79943069753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okfilm.kr/userData/board/file/70646260590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baust.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12317942793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://colakcivi.com/userfiles/file/nofolubamewovujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lexconsulting.ro/webroot/files/media/4700246136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eegbiofeedback-leszno.pl/userfiles/file/mokajatowikepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ave-france.com/pics/files/wozopigekumux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ffc15e8102---92374654880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axwelindia.com/uploads/kogegav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinosteelcode.com/filespath/files/20210917105023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastoncn.housemember.com/uploads/files/10982708114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archetipoingegneria.it/userfiles/files/zedazozun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifeisartfoundation.org/sites/default/files/images/userfiles/file/88053240968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phonphangschool.com/upload/files/vaxutifidafilabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.com/res/wysiwyg/file/80645447001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614482be68caf---pegirunibujowazapet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthimaycafe.vn/uploads/file/lirezokijebudur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=ssx+tricky+apkPDF 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_off0000d81c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD81C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f033.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF033 10348 bytes
SHA-256: 8ccad7df8dcf79e91733a8e5f745c3397a0de28520412a6aef7c6d7033b4025e
font_02_sfnt_off000107ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107BA 17784 bytes
SHA-256: bd25286b041f92ff0f414f44f4049788c5101913a71f2f37005f4dd36f437715