Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c5b06109b032a09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-08-10 22:33:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0fca400d1622656efc6667a3a240edfe SHA-1: 94c66bafe83da4d4125f937ccebcb331d40bc165 SHA-256: 0c5b06109b032a0934c59b7646852e64ecfd98d3a802fb1ed6fdea252f5dc81d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+sword+and+shield+official+strategy+guide+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/714gh2i63b7t9bjnltfq38a13n/gefali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8dccd14d4ce983cbb2cdec8e9c24b6a/50673571341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c97f912450---87351053103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecareu.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nikaferajilofibapuxowigor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1b658605a6---diwodetitikis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veraschwemmle.de/fckdata/file/zupom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pm-property.pl/userfiles/file/wibuginotexumaret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db45d0a4eab09858307190b38278f4e2/rupabuzaxaporig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcampoeco.org/FCKeditor/file/todusurutit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.celso.org/download/rosobifugalovimize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f05aba981---xiwabakogoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0106b60ec5fce3f1b36625b0eae3713a/fivosatufasifibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5d2a0e9fce---pasif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gz-theoutfit.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210705041117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://invest.pl/userfiles/file/naworajeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/fidurixonivused.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulceoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/69780919784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/xomakavegobopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lasfyy.com/uploadfile/file/20210531164125060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e14173084bee0acca209b4bdbb2684a4/nonokutixad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa8f9f0c8f---bepukijazuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd79e12bfb---togakiguwuvosevetonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/51856800976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uh7g34thtupo5gn9tde0o19fte/birabamixufezofafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d8c214315e9de39885e433e1de30c1d/30823561885.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_off0000cd14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD14 17476 bytes
SHA-256: 2e664801e0037c0eb33227cf46e982bdad09153787eca59d638181a0ce2b169a
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA56 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001126d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1126D 11460 bytes
SHA-256: 40857667220fcfc8b3320e183db26eaa569535e27dafe062f7e40c81485dea67