Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ae012943720a4e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 00:44:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 0b3564a3d9725fbdf1662d438690d7b5 SHA-1: 7ef0ddb922ccd2f48b67e95b663963d25f30360e SHA-256: 0ae012943720a4e783a4a3183a4186761e5aa4933a6674a18e7f6936f2243994
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to lure users into clicking and potentially downloading further malicious content or submitting sensitive information. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a link farm and the overall detection profile strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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=math+goals+for+high+school+students PDF link annotation
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160783aec1c14f---fiwotixotodujob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.rs/slicice/file/manosat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c11bc74280df40ac154a7abb99c6f705/gexiropap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa4e035e10c---40214216880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6cd9668131---tagudetis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/49155896466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ae0lg2nbm67t2ijgrf9c5f1h3/22603510076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vagtteam.dk/userfiles/Files/6777582759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b3b449af6e8cee236f0268be2e79d2e/26628086207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88e2c131fe2d7313027b041aa340e01d/baloru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608348198f0b0---wofetumilesovawudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dbd39cb4e2---73589135374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a80e36e8019---jirazotifenesexiviguvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5e4b8d726a---68325855912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5344649234ad1ee75e1077edd04c4f53/zowarumopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a843d94e8c6---puxuzimibetew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kientrucnhacuagio.com/upload/files/92987659341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnwebdesign.dk/userfiles/file/sadomaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosgratuitosonline.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ojaak2vst7ho6kioe6m0seoa76/40504233845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/792ade309e74a90035c1d2551c5e5f31/25774152027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c17e7ecb2b2---56844068779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamker.hu/userfiles/file/52776264209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e31cac0e8c8c9f3c3557e7e59b8d2e3b/79022313332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90a50cc4c6bc0bed294c7f28af7b5e1d/37444673319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/184f46a91668035736739858ba50725e/bomawulejubevo.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_off0000f1b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1B1 16688 bytes
SHA-256: c96a97ffed2870be23d0552e73b0cab667301f42fa4ab55b680db3d488f44994
font_01_sfnt_off00011d04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D04 10848 bytes
SHA-256: ed9461b30e3c746395ae88b3725734a4249df41423db6170cd9a74dd07323d12
font_02_sfnt_off000135da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1