Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c046d4813868e70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2021-06-25 10:15:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2f69b35b897a9942dd7c45aa3eed855d SHA-1: d65d3af0b5703e0b6be14b0617c0dfad4fefc2ec SHA-256: 0c046d4813868e70f94d2553aafd65a2daff54552eb3c91e630d5fd4f09a15d8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external links and the nature of the heuristics point towards the document being used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=business+objects+reporting+tutorial+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f682110df9968c53838f65af07f0423c/judug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chatsworth72.com/clients/5/53/532ec3c8dc0e95779814939736d4df6d/File/doridumisapojabapufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3705862030a033d819d0ecf223f7000/76590124904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b559d804eafebc74a41578e6196bf71c/jirisal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/rigofuvilovezap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08o5cikq9de6rdedvl1lm050ml/35047272988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traiteur-ribot.fr/userfiles/file/25025975450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securityguardsupply.org/php/uploads/file/12815579763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792e574200f---jagofotizitasulodevewiwex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba727faeb98---bewopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cacc2d8191---zufujidolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/kemovenoludagiman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dolgoprudny.ru/upload_picture/file/nolalobavikefoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atkarisuli.hu/userfiles/file/keterimuwudavafifubixubow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/27724817815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bc87d5a3a1---sonat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://:/BOE/BIIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d9cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9CC 5588 bytes
SHA-256: 6ba42137989e411fa21d387e96b601a654161d41e742ad965f954c63c2f794fe
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECDF 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 085bfd8c870b5fca0716358a1205a82220d8e7cfbadb32d083f752c0a7537ea4