Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c367e0e79de6137…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-19 08:09:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: b4f29375c97d307dfdc5957a7ca85029 SHA-1: 7d272f9c6de7869daa052235f687df5967884c81 SHA-256: 0c367e0e79de6137658744d9808a1e10be1d4b199991de9895ceb53bd02a539e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate maliciousness, with the primary attack pattern being the redirection of users through a network of URLs. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis strongly suggest a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e1f9fdf84ed455139b155bb0c8cf0c9/70783497107.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.civilhospitalpalampur.in/img/uploads/files/fugupufagubotibupojirola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oteliapelsin.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/podusugefofixomatopufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computerdoki.hu/user/file/jifososurinakegisozuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movitecnic.fr/ressource/site-image/files/80106558992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140926abacbf---57772351713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baongochoa.com/upload/file/fufemaxipupedaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firewaterdamagedfw.com/test/fckeditor/uploadfiles/file/24248063463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatnhapkhaugiasi.com/luutru/files/jaxuxusimub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smsalumni1971.com/apadmin/uploads/userfiles/files/kipaduxuluneletowaxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenayu.com/filespath/files/20210902043013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lahma.pl/_u/userfiles/file/94753077480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3drm.bg/uploads/pictures/files/pivisusuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanomax-nsk.ru/images/73782214872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mylodge-naoshima.com/images/blog/file/neratefesemedep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korzo-galeria.hu/files/file/77540342937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfecbde504678a2ba48056769550ce6c/wisemukijixurusapuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlapcongtykiengiang.com/upload/ck/files/buzukarikigil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ans5680.preneed91.com/upload/files/kajebokujalawexap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuc-fac.com/uploadfiles/20210907124402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xsjsbzrw.com/uploads/files/zesavazutusaxomur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yyfxsw.com/upload/files/50106595783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=wii+remote+emulator+androidPDF 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_off0000cbc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBC9 19948 bytes
SHA-256: 21066f7a3f5bafbc4f137ab0878ac44e181767f4a60c48e1d22fc60cec49e7af
font_01_sfnt_off0000fefb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEFB 10336 bytes
SHA-256: 537f4f699dc131a7da786514994f60ec980e89929c33d6909b1f37e13e56aba7
font_02_sfnt_off00011645.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11645 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1