Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a879707c3b7cb97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-09-10 14:22:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f352e28479912ff76470e5cc8b2563df SHA-1: bee914d43d2c3dffbb4d4457cac4c760457e9cb6 SHA-256: 0a879707c3b7cb97bf76b9fe01753152c1cf6d5ce7b972ce46353167374690a6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that redirect to various external sites. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs suggests an attempt to track user engagement, likely for phishing or malware distribution purposes. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=deer+hunter+classic+hack+apk+2020
    • http://xn--or3bo5mvlb.com/data/editor/file/45221972662.pdf
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/kigimaranadedalejegowa.pdf
    • https://dalycity.com/wysiwygfiles/file/86003653392.pdf
    • https://tempegaring.com/contents/files/73559437738.pdf
    • https://pt2-turbo-j3t.com/contents/files/42619048687.pdf
    • http://skybuildinfraprojects.com/uploads/kivufujewo.pdf
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613afc264f23d---88903216285.pdf
    • http://educaholistica.com/resources/img/imagesck/files/53423110988.pdf
    • https://siroyensao.com/upload/files/29561819592.pdf
    • https://xistenze.nagydavid.com/files/files/fatibivuvebabimeten.pdf
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137e09a9e76b---96344012299.pdf
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t406sgtl71gvrrdr9pq6rubc97/talejajitebax.pdf
    • https://mundolibre.cl/uploads/userfiles/files/dizosuteroligubuxi.pdf
    • https://digireg.se/upload/fejevekezorofadeverunir.pdf
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b040f8ab4d---jafesubikemojamuridoris.pdf
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a9709f39ed---13674536365.pdf
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dmm2stv2ksskrmpk38av9cbuf/99508489371.pdf
    • https://impactmediaresources.com/userfiles/file/9427603111.pdf
    • http://czechdidgeridoo.com/admin/upload/file/gokuwikigewuvitesemabimif.pdf
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134eaf1cc340---15624884892.pdf
    • https://wolfgang-photography.com/userfiles/files/kabamu.pdf
    • http://kamerton.nl/clientfiles/18318134290.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f82c.bin
6c806b4ca6e438d89a52e7ca5d03b10afeafa789b73b95b7c9c19b4f29a907f2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF82C 10788 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011104.bin
1cbb97a9208900ddd980fba776d88dc5ab83a8cbb47a43d7ca26fb9c85dd25d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11104 17604 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013e67.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E67 16792 bytes