Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c1a4fa999062daa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 03:30:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: d9f606614d8f86bc7991c095f0395a70 SHA-1: 3ce5874a90cf0f9e8603b04776afcffeac94e207 SHA-256: 0c1a4fa999062daaec556c6deac7febe848b01f0d619a021da4516b205a9ba25
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the detection results point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://pindimana.in/uploads/file/kasufasederavonakuk.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/91039598064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herculesestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/guxaduzojerarafuxuwaxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safiorida.nl/operatori/userfiles/file/73245347701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roland-toys.eu/userfiles/file/66136682880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bougerpourstarlight.org/clients/c/c6/c668404594a1c08d975ab50c7bec58f6/File/62228197714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svx.su/ffile/file/rarefifemer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be80faedbe9---sukisusokotivazabakisef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/9607815115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609098eeb929c---masobazepatasovabib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lenaoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/vosis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/75548215919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-barrierfree.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210709_0D81AF1B7930EC1D.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c4f9a9a840---getifazusepetowijon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109c18d52e9b---66477801144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i6n2a559gh3386g2if1td1p8nu/zakuferas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adb97bdba14---9331307646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nakipoglugroup.com/upload/ckfinder/files/jemegozologogonefiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17f56242133d9653ca75088cce5dd6aa/12455227727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sbmhavacilik.com/userfiles/file/fabixupesot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160988ae76fa1a---valejafalewiwalosuzasusot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091c5ddb9141---kupixikebufitogibin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073204c28597---56163281080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=m+and+r+stoneworksPDF 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_off0000d90b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD90B 10272 bytes
SHA-256: 2f3382b835c92aa722a2079a5b74d2c1073895f2976ea70e104177269c9a4904
font_01_sfnt_off0000f059.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF059 18172 bytes
SHA-256: e509f16245d1094fed17dbaa5ccce0b75bfc4710ca94f38e552d90b27071758c
font_02_sfnt_off00011ecb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ECB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1