Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a8b2786c3c454d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-09-26 07:26:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 056287a47812947d7766f5ad38ba9d06 SHA-1: 043d801c8bac1193297a17cffd9c7023eed9b517 SHA-256: 0a8b2786c3c454d18315a4ab9cad058733b8c55322885a92aeaa0282e91944a7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, likely to host malicious content or phish for credentials. The presence of 'utm_term' in one URL suggests an attempt to track user engagement with potentially malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+omega+ruby+download+zip PDF link annotation
    • http://debnine.net/UserFiles/File/dojamokavajatuwokatelos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bc-arman.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85985504558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epmachine.ru/d/files/ninopanimezegixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngocvietbungalow.com/upload/files/66182596902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kargo-box.com/uploads/files/vobeteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resortcrimea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nijamorurugemebenida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irisapp.cn/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210921/file/16321619351926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellenia3.eu/userfiles/files/magokedapadikavejiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://varbackaforskola.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fejopusulefojunemoxeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613872d21ac29---40602899101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-9/file/bepabikin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aucordechasse.fr/vosImages/90691951065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guerrazzi.info/userfiles/files/surupuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614241e4104a8---wonakopar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.parkwaytransplant.com/media_upload/upload/files/80256045310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stmarysharipad.com/userfiles/file/64439309572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ageddfjtjgrade.pretty-match.com/upload/files/zerogejulusilobivarumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d323a68558---52128000353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gberwanda.com/gbe/useruploads/blogs/files/boxavowatojapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpsputhuppally.com/userfiles/file/rogesozetidise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexen.ca/userfiles/files/jeroselo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/bufogodekufelujabemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karolinanowak.com/userfiles/file/nepanoxamikoturo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000af3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF3F 11064 bytes
SHA-256: 2bbcbdab3f4a4bcf8cc656ac69f0bd876532bbe044501c193917d91ccc334fee
font_01_sfnt_off0000c89f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC89F 15716 bytes
SHA-256: c28de10b0bb02697729675afda919b5db5b5dc25b7e4b17bc5011a749f21a0e2
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0F7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1