Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0afed29de4cdb2b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 04:09:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d00f4ff51d24433be00efb6ee4cb3225 SHA-1: f0dffa19db1d6a5da21382bb0ea99965f395935f SHA-256: 0afed29de4cdb2b4983590554249cf5d6615b616932c7ae9ec0c4586709c1b2f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://frigotechreina.com/userfiles/files/20596263848.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kaskad-74.ru/images/uploads/98801565819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonitomov.com/picture/file/wakije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0ee5ca9386---resudun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koyomisushi.com/uploads/files/sokeseralejowimarevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drthchowdary.net/userfiles/file/87025762720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff3m2h3tvt1916gii3ufa9p45h/gimebibufakuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1olki1lvhe65b36d9k1lslpqt1/48391558326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/wiwug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611a43165f218---kofadumezub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://absoluteanytime.com/media_file/files/files/murupenimevujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.servicioscalibrados.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/323dadefb2ee4d9f1688eb3c80932eb6/32648787867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-himki.ru/upload_picture/file/53581606420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroisvias.ru/userfiles/file/23683708058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entiambalaj.com/upload/file/81655783229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macphersonproperties.com/clients/876251/File/23044627728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4ef3ce492---69220010434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hangquangauto.com/files/98932488791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e211e8554a130488238a228ca452262/46838425288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidaksusah.com/contents//files/41417774570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc-am.com.br/Selecao/ckfinder/files/29948689566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namthangbasaltstone.com/uploads/image/files/faxakobilaxubopozuzopub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speakingparrot.com/upload/ckfinder/files/69233630275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wongkungfu.ca/clients/f/f5/f5c316b966f29b3192b3e9e3c5714b3c/File/loxuretis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=midwest+neuroscience+institutePDF 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_off0000d022.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD022 10336 bytes
SHA-256: 604629368a3d46d07a0a6f2303b07569c68c1afb6869c1253657b58aee662744
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7A8 17108 bytes
SHA-256: 335b09c36527226f397961b9abf114c95b2acae39bbe299a5e5e606dc009c2bd
font_02_sfnt_off0001141d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1141D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1