Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b172ca5a4f0b3aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 22:11:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 4ff2ee12668714e23e61e09ab0a36eec SHA-1: aeb97a62960e79041ea0dfe4ac5936e139f7f2d5 SHA-256: 0b172ca5a4f0b3aa53d096e3e86c10a0d5917dfda7368628d2bc49821d4ec4ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

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 numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The presence of these URLs suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution indicate a link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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 https://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=god+mode+ps4+gta+5+online PDF link annotation
    • https://sahyadrisevasanstha.in/userfiles/file/kajovividufetuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rollfactorytogo.com/uploads/files/fukav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dogandemir.av.tr/paketler/ckfinder/dosyalar/files/tozuxesosufegos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmk.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2320426259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://17njl.com/userfiles/files/50944248481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khamtribacninh.com/images/files/89336305832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tommytest.dish1314.com/data/html_editor/files/36085191268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cinstech-inspect-survey.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/metidozosubedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stillincontact.com/images/mails/file/wusuloribababi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estatecambodia.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/badigovumiwuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f0e9488e66---94428341634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akoseq9f.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/22294394389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sipsak.nl/userfiles/file/66921064871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mtiwelding.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36939016805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adb1a600b4d47732c3650d3c4220a973/72695191831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.domaine-vrignaud.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87636363435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lexcochoralsoc.org/demo/lccs/beta/userfiles/files/47790473199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imobilestore.de/userfiles/file/57971999997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insinkerator.us/images/uploaded/file/11110171769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145bdabd0f36---80038702876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosaison.fr/userfiles/files/piseriberajezotujudedob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctsgroups.asia/images/file/zopuwumurupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139dd07e04fc---28480740821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atasuorganiktarim.com/upload/ckfinder/files/vozugexolokol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b9fb3d591c---34830428976.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_off0000c737.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC737 10884 bytes
SHA-256: 343e52b5e5eeda5dd086e093a89924109fb7eff2dff49f01ee929033602bc738
font_01_sfnt_off0000e03b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE03B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f84d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF84D 17528 bytes
SHA-256: 734e83d3b0aa1e846f531362715af3aaf1fab993a15e9a0bf8d972ac2c96eb2f