Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0af98b2dcb95ef8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 02:23:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ccd920c63e017067b586a9c463654459 SHA-1: 28b84bba1ca44b965e67f1305385af1651684280 SHA-256: 0af98b2dcb95ef8fb7f294e7bf01e0ca3ae4be52320d14a9520c2ff7144eab54
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' suggests the document may provide instructions to decrypt a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass security filters.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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=clash+of+clans+modded+version PDF link annotation
    • http://laboratoriologos.it/userfiles/files/lalikarawalapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leoclubmarsala.it/userfiles/files/danivomifuwetipigin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikketiga.com/contents/files/1044151164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d09372e9b0---fexesufusurad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithattamphuong.com/upload/files/werukotor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amt-alarmy.pl/userfiles/file/tevuzubatizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613512082f175---zarekogenuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kunmobile.vn/files/uploaded/20210903/file/34303470066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145060d0754d---zalejaxazevobidodamine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cngwalk.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/dajeroviboxugaledajupif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/50241416857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wcd.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10684611983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wodepcb.cn/uploadfiles/files/pilederadetopagubidewoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d4f7e7671b---52460142687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesmashclub.com/imgUpload/files/6672905390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibb-online.ru/f/file/81690595835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jjrc2cu7ql2biv0eus6dikv8c0/74398267045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umartravel.com/files/visis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7322836071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wanfutemple.urwaydesign.com/data/file/userfiles/files/12281312104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ujepites.hu/userfiles/files/fupowiduwusizuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipea.kr/userData/board/file/tofakusixejonenivefar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/kagadarewepuzusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ciela13.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/tukipesaz.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_off0000c74c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC74C 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 7193e532f1ba0cc82e434953797ddbc6c9a27c50188746939bfff57f867f5369
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFC1 15900 bytes
SHA-256: f91cef999c3a1c6bc6847fed4f69d15795d70898a01dfccb734bae170538ddb2
font_02_sfnt_off0001081b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1081B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1