Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a860281fd3376e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-13 06:00:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 6a32d49d78f75361a4406590bbaab00b SHA-1: d579aa4afee7ecfa1da6c62421ad5b0b7d2d2d78 SHA-256: 0a860281fd3376e1e33942f22edb3dcb1aad42f2921c05f458b564e80a3d7ef0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple disposable hosting domains, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The sample's structure and URL patterns suggest it's part of a campaign to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 https://nonbodepsg.com/uploads/files/60361492909.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://scandinavia-ex.com/images/blog/file/mosomefinetodemirunun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azinsaghf.com/cache/fck_files/file/71642980550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dztechfin.com/upload/file///15799010964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hissekurban.com/resimler/files/79624758435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://awarelaxcentrum.cz/user_files/file/14719624036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinruily.com/UploadFile/file/20210903081224529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saveondealz.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/ralikefomowamowet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dietmoiquangle.com/webroot/img/files/xojufamale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/zetokasagigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgmorenanews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47424395027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divorce-difficile.fr/userfiles/file/56168887680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajur.rest/uploads/userfiles/file/zosivonetegabipelegomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ln6q4534thpr486ftj926r6el3/3832951808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istruttorecinofilo.it/userfiles/file/34680626924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juniorclublivorno.com/sitonews/images_upload/files/vofanitomedamali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodabo.eu/userfiles/files/25097804132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shirbandifelt.com/userfiles/file/64705179771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161342d3dbddf1---zoralamuwazebomifaturo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cambridgekapurthala.com/damana/userfiles/file/86439104390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeuu.biz/upload/ckeditor/pages/files/sasimaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tele-video.ru/upload/files/mesodalutizarug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6cce821cd9e187e95ae03a87b1c52c6/turorejalibixabekil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natursany.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3643524965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woykoff.hu/upload/file/85364418050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=hardware+overlays+androidPDF 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_off0000d3bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3BD 10400 bytes
SHA-256: ee2d53ce563891b0294559ba2b9e4f5b1a0d40683caf25fb0e8689c509dcc3c2
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB5D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001036f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1036F 17724 bytes
SHA-256: c8be7e663b08a1d3217b0bf52e22df19956aabef0fc69eace15450aac7513a54