Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c3562fa08a5f69a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-17 02:57:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: cbe7f5ecfbd447191042993873fef95f SHA-1: 630fcdce3da94485e0748d93dd2db057e7fef2ce SHA-256: 0c3562fa08a5f69aabe572e927ba95629f7d239fd6b105911f4f91396b4941d6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which are associated with compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of a link farm on compromised infrastructure suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wired+screen+mirroring+android+to+pc PDF link annotation
    • http://kojeneckezbozi.eu/userfiles/file/50074038374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parfumerieindex.nl/images/uploads/nemove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farashimirooz.com/files/41397560147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolitplus.ru/files/file/46996941101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakersfield.thepokeluau.com/uploads/files/jadegovasuxutolawikum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushinamu.com/uploads/files/valurutozozixiput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telegid.tv/userfiles/file/85746717025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d397b238e4---wakogelob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd666efc512fb9767fa9d5927c22e7fa/kopabikasusitinowerowupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oresteruggiero.com/userfiles/files/41278701692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bevasilicones.in/userfiles/file/53836821987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bischofs-scheune.de/userfiles/file/nufovus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyuanmei.com/userfiles/file/75688556869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aodaiminhhanh.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/24782647835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.boldino-hotel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72699121840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10aee520e94b1c37ab2b7047257c3aa4/vanejaduxiwanetopata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://china-glass-mosaic.com/userfiles/files/20210910_152713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rainbowfurnitures.com/files/files/14693725250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontieregypt.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87268787643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dispensapertutti.com/userfiles/files/18180497273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osiindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nesajezefatifodejexefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://currycornersugarland.com/admin/images/file/dosovop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--lenachatka-57b.pl/uploaded/file/fagizizapidofivuvagis.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_off0000da9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA9F 18088 bytes
SHA-256: c1ef61b08159d95f24ac2da09bffc13a075d5f3e4607335150f9ed84d1f7e6c0
font_01_sfnt_off00010976.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10976 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 00a149871e10959b96f8f181df2fda59dc86fdf4aff04c8392b188815c9a9198
font_02_sfnt_off0001222d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1222D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1