Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c286ad9c1863f02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-06-17 14:26:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 8f604c631d09fad80e65cf7a7eb49927 SHA-1: 2ef2859b6209f82e768a3c30d2b5cfd783a29fde SHA-256: 0c286ad9c1863f0296ad0b603bd5aa5711fc29201ba83cb518f23b61839d2791
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous compromised WordPress upload storage locations and disposable hosting sites, disguised as a guide for merging PDF files. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to distribute further malicious content or lead users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/95995203396.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://studiobardinisrl.com/userfiles/files/nikewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cf2f3cb3b13e2566727d6d2e23bbd08/20769536689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5f55b81c9bd05d3b49b60fc6954bc48/28174687433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d4232be86b597bdd2a117d7a81c60ce/85808146048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baohanhranghm.com/upload/img/files/76379474378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1376b1308c---mitix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b2698b19c6---duxigiritokajiboda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a4d154456---92647900167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0063802d6e---39623198554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://berbagiangka.com/contents//files/98358091373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://connect-senior.ch/uploades/userfiles/file/59245952485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084371eb6b56---31985057029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e61a7bb9dbf24d8c2d59e931f3ff796b/kotofem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f46a5052a---vuxiwigamibuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/43276309759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+merge+2+or+more+pdf+filesPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f28e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF28E 5336 bytes
SHA-256: 6a383b4217122d343637dac7aff317578b061dc63b714f90a2a67415bf2f756b
font_01_sfnt_off000104bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104BF 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 9b242c784e80012591680dd9cd1063bde1f3e66ff52e07083f1b6f8ef78ecdd8