Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b013fd204351ea5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-06-28 09:52:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 9e0d6bb9feecb7be3dc4a39c99679f29 SHA-1: c77bf3fbd384657a4c3903080c102cbfc88f36af SHA-256: 0b013fd204351ea560c013244e4ba34620543fe9dbd4e8cd0d2c6e8dfbb050ae
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 a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to direct users to phishing or malware-hosting sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+you+turn+off+notifications+on+your+phone PDF link annotation
    • https://nadamasristorante.it/file/97937575315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guitarenko.fr/img/files/puzusatamevetozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a287936600a---79591524182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloit1962.com/clients/8/83/8368a4f838dea3176655029ae9e337da/File/71065278041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/mugedafazekuwosabejeweve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70daf2f37036d99789e7215bee5bdcc1/xosafidufonafexisenapixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/91309301235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8c68ecc5a6---1536164105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/kixadaburavexujamezupepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.passion-rnd.com/upfile/files/2021/06/28/19956597841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolmech-strzelno.pl/Upload/file/50392494365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gleneaglehoa.org/images/file/39299936747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b6a34a4317---36707179273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608de5f67b152---ziberunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d322490da---22518015949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsterparkett.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gnjjnsa4ntfl2i518cb9g7cbhh/siwasovususukosudegokifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://computerzone.pk/file/fudarazobusevuxedum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthibongda.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xaxafuxurugaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/731d250c32d9c2fba048089c63f214b8/zenogigegis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2fe0379c6c---45237750906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609187fec8448---relojagotomakubaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ec2080edf012a258f5693fa52d6c4aa/kidoxupebolopagisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078482cb750d---39721370956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0811969035c5a9e5cfa5f7aeb645274d/kurixutewesotifosu.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_off0000ea2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA2E 17360 bytes
SHA-256: fea002bee34036148e718c5f7ebe71f0624a61c48467314951d673a571d1aea3
font_01_sfnt_off0001176b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1176B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012f82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F82 10960 bytes
SHA-256: b0a2cdabc54bcbc84b8701a189c4a8286f91f56a15d9e0da9394927403f04ea4