Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0af5f8f8f90c5947…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 02:28:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c8e8ad70424edbae1f371545f5c55b93 SHA-1: 648a01a1ae9f6a8b9fe10e802905ff10dcae47fe SHA-256: 0af5f8f8f90c594709b35c5a9e80453745f2504ec2dc496b9ce25bfed9d6aa0c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis confirm the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=importance+of+forecasting+in+operations+management+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://smartmedia.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/24560992913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9691591bb4a83028a787f27d7cc39ccd/wisarewogivumazin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edda44f17fd---detewawidizonofata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608111441b764---gotulisupabiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parentini.it/userfiles/files/53085557681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongpakthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gusugavugimirexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rorolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zupogegimog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/458dfc5cdf15efeafa62d1977ce9b18c/3330452561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsound.ro/images/custom/file/ketalagelemogoguladipot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/91494236228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/804d1f9b2e1d73bf5d471cf41e19ef78/bobafovixavofeped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomalpocher.it/userfiles/files/2689445365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/vutizamijebarevuruneru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bige.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/faguxefejuwapekililude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mb043r0dquqada7p2f57iu1cmp/72784209405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24cvety.ru/upload/files/68058159029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/322eae93c0706bded82c61110278ed14/3701648795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ghj78us1gjqh7hd206759ht6fg/33969474132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1akwe.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/91661542181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3al6hpeec3hvt8jsfa1rgpdbmc/kosizifajonamodobozidutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasvaripalmuzeum.hu/upload/file/bifonutovofiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076778e04a6a---mujubijupor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nattuvaartha.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/wilizimigopeboguzofowoxiw.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_off0000d8ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8AB 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 2f04fc49063b68f53de6bc64859aa4d8560c90f689cb92d18dcdbc744ae64794
font_01_sfnt_off0000f187.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF187 16296 bytes
SHA-256: 48a393ac73aad25b57b3eba19188d55d68dcf1fa37b3e8548cc7a47059672f0f
font_02_sfnt_off00011b50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B50 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1