Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a8a6b7c14776a49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-07-01 19:12:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: eb813afaff15dd51c60a3b93c3d75a66 SHA-1: 3bc7eb6e6dea13f1ed3a67d93ea4596bbf6b3ee3 SHA-256: 0a8a6b7c14776a49ca7961e330209b943f7eefdd179749027f3c8ffde5c2cd98
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to external sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/55062646994.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094005c778db---majexazokuluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterjobintl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sorigidoporanufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arvikabc.com/images/uploadedimages/file/xupobivazarunikedoradu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37749e238d7d7863730cc2c09b1f4e87/sipigibegabitatebifofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushinamu.com/uploads/files/ropumivuzewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b61da63a544---54257096953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985b1bc563a---binijogofozezoxawexigibil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/kapirazebisepewud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160868f1c8f743---mitawapididixat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62jca3hcb0o51pjgb5ubtv4cok/pufexedotidudikese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r0av1kuoetnl7t3pkghg16d191/68512795446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607442543b2ba---55034609102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debeleven.net/UserFiles/File/67809811934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c07bbb01b9e460b1368b77dcc6301ce/84206928854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb96f7686df2dae7dccb2d8c79f0c2b3/11408035286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/nixeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8ccef65e20---mizarazujiwado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c74465d365a---dezarakazogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texasstatealphaxialumnae.com/clients/f/fe/fe72632f573fdc77cca6b85875c63e8a/File/luzelakowixaremikenobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamday.com/userfiles/file/54708108273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boothbayharborshipyard.com/userfiles/file/94097108025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=one+point+perspective+ideasPDF 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_off0000e827.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE827 17020 bytes
SHA-256: 02c410acbdc8ac59222e355d58d4c372f24b28cafeb534f82e217cb5956f4707
font_01_sfnt_off00011430.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11430 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C47 10552 bytes
SHA-256: d4fb478334207d3ddedf66a64ed39d424e8ec8d029ba24ba81f2ddb2ae08de37