Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a9f2363fde3ae7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-08-01 19:47:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 5156eda2a092186cef2ea1be8584e9ed SHA-1: aaa85175199d704c5a220667ff23924e6eb3aeee SHA-256: 0a9f2363fde3ae7c8a9f59d34f7229071470800c5329d9f1fb6aadff200c66a1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for SEO manipulation or to host phishing content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of specific payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://bluetact.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/77882316223.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ee4d64fa8---16085094622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okzawidow.pl/img/upload/files/2404513192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mbcasc.net/imgs/file/37499172338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4eb7d0c221---881953164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.domaine-boussard-chablis.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wolubipesimudaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asianmosaicnyc.com/userfiles/file/31829913134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a20jh5r52pjuvq2spmlpenlcm8/vagiketesesejelinojofoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01a400382be0c2e15ddb85ec76a4648b/96007522951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ae6edc7ed8682f1a8cb34479315fd51/moketi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c007148242e---88499077428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24721f1f4409e1d59b65f6fb3db208a6/87908099446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledson.ru/upload_picture/17249994003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b709167920a91c20ff0df165823ba9d/bidipibuzibet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609495e235ab7---gikevobonebuzunixozuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brukbet.com/user_images/file/zipakafunijibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39c0a41344d534fcc29e817445424769/wujasigubivemuvevoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9fceb9d034---timosopulek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/buzawulafukasubiduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23e419b8e034a1db7f4867243a23d71d/61981933949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ecdefae89cf---15195189488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160789efc3375b---pojasalazadefonazaxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6e4960f488---55056843260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=printable+math+worksheets+for+grade+3+multiplicationPDF 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_off0000f056.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF056 11660 bytes
SHA-256: 4e5a211b80d45ae3f74ec8069c335f10235fa561b1982af3d203b0c46ede28e3
font_01_sfnt_off00010b92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B92 16920 bytes
SHA-256: 823d4f1bd7650fbc38cbdb358592a0e74626b8717b0c1418e150ccf38499c348
font_02_sfnt_off000137c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1