Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c388489480b0f4f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.1 KB Created: 2021-07-09 10:34:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: eb693d27c885778a65e30320c19bd591 SHA-1: 5d195399511e19279ea883c48ba58aa662ef937e SHA-256: 0c388489480b0f4ff7770910e29792839c9aa55ae8bafdc5373f27bc0f58365c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised CMS upload storage locations and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the structure and URL patterns indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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 http://huiking.cn/uploads/file/160414359872.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/33295313174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h1cmmduknqhheivfsvs59k6g54/wevowatovifaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf2r0q7826qealgb52m4k4ofmn/48570761550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1dfcf9e306---fedusuzavupiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullhousetourism.com/UploadFiles/file/20210626054430150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/93577440262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/vukusorizop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rf4chp6ns9m697j8vbkhne7d97/29922096001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamotato.ro/userfiles/file/17480163144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattosushi.com/uploads/files/dojurilefetip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ma6ke73mnd9ihrr0hf3jkegit5/59391107796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonitomov.com/picture/file/75932323996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afe027cef71---57240346048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11drs2fngkpnf479s4u8sfhlgk/livok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenthelong.net/userfiles/files/watum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretruc.com/media/ftp/file/24715489812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anukulagrotech.com/userfiles/file/bafojafuverizigeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jerseybankruptcylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/29774669121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe8a08b0a2173df3b6bfbdee845f08d3/ronibidanarometuwoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenlivinggarden.com/htdocs/UserFiles/file/rujomasonajogenidinuveji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a100be081eb284ebf8f9e0ccd7adfaa3/22165949707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b39e22084a---gazuwadofopaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fq2ftupsea2lokdf6e0mv9sutt/10069677776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c10c71de2331f8ac945e32673adf828/latak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+insert+a+column+to+the+left+of+column+fPDF 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_off00013b53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B53 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 04e46fda30f4ec6d2bb4418ef9c49ab6cce6bac87b8cf5ded4ac05f17ed9bd20
font_01_sfnt_off000153fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x153FE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016c10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16C10 17816 bytes
SHA-256: 13bce2ef4b83ea67cdff3ca54353ab24e7e72cb52bd401887f432b0e84fdf007