Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a88609b74a7015c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 16:52:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 14f95b9447221d8f3aea43a3615d6a96 SHA-1: 1b794ddd21779ab7e37f768cbc3551aed9c23f72 SHA-256: 0a88609b74a7015c5cc81c10041d6e433714bfda112be389187375592a6da236
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS uploads, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to potentially malicious websites, likely for phishing or malware distribution, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=clash+of+clans+th10+war+base
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/laolg67hqu6rfm43o5i27qljn8/84513795178.pdf
    • https://ferado.vn/userfiles/file/sorijufosede.pdf
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/58554079956.pdf
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6079c6c2e723cb9dab0b42431c6718cf/sikubijenanov.pdf
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbd2a3d9a1---suwenuvoxod.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a93e6960f5e---50327424162.pdf
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607259862c626---kevitinepivujazufi.pdf
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ip4162bmg8dlrjt0madfalmgf3/wugeden.pdf
    • http://lws-realestate.com/userfiles/files/48801610304.pdf
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a72924d9570f8686da654223c5c4886/9553121164.pdf
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a13a880ef96---18644957359.pdf
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/usu9cvp89k65fj9lrejpn9h2nu/93738380414.pdf
    • http://classicalgardenornaments.com/uplds/file/bupibuwezagagenolarugam.pdf
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ccaa99a82---68324052614.pdf
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ce035a8f9---21523792564.pdf
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758e1c5394a---30521487557.pdf
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93ca178a601292d1209f92734c11712f/79113307685.pdf
    • https://securitydm.rs/slicice/file/jetibowufatusawufoto.pdf
    • https://adikkeempat.com/contents//files/90450093504.pdf
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36d626567aa69bc344483672513888ef/35147361126.pdf
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/290d30a2aa6bd24be59a81240f821385/semigir.pdf
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-4/20210504014918962186.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7fcbd9d26b---lavodabafemoxowetit.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_off000141b6.bin
d05c7485d831b79ad0b15797784c13393a2074200e808bc1430237d39c7b8719
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141B6 17548 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00016f55.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16F55 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001876c.bin
3b0f8bf28f43b2c9d3a6ddcab5537230eb4716513026f0f0d3b746fffbd385b7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1876C 10772 bytes