Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c7008d8f9c8be37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-09-20 06:37:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 565ca1f9073308294feb439204e1ef67 SHA-1: aeb0400a099a358d85cea02ac82af05339e03b75 SHA-256: 0c7008d8f9c8be37eb09ab84aa39aa35a7d62c50de9110528cc1455bfff0fd29
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which are associated with link farms and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports the attack pattern of using compromised or disposable infrastructure to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=zenui+dialer+contacts+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://ttmm.co.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fepexuwinorolevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdenet.mn/userfiles/file/toborelawazobizumavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sial.pl/galeria/file/nilejufokupekugekugetit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceresasrl.it/userfiles/files/43595303127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graviroz.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99747512415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f679a7c30e---bikijogogezinevulogezul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szabolcsipeter.com/userfiles/file/1777814465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caudafotografia.com/userfiles/files/97602392847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holland-ex.com/images/blog/file/61973907565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herium.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210920_C45907E049BA77E7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0351.com/userfiles/file/20210908080648_4yf7nx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecovn.vn/uploads/news_file/14563291648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debten.net/UserFiles/File/84833683451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141524c1a380---2491264287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatsah.com/webroot/img/files/62638282377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjc-dev.com/userfiles/file/rozisibekaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtowniagrafit.pl/userfiles/file/28104657127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://another-partner.morefriendship.com/upload/files/40732164315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kotolantopeni.cz/files/51213197285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazurubezpieczenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/repadurofupuxuzezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michael-dhom.com/webseiten/file/tavujifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161327659d89cd---91831993913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lauraestetica.com/userfiles/files/xatasajeloxemuze.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_off0000b313.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB313 16776 bytes
SHA-256: 79b7db26b3012ee77eb1628002bcfb47ca942dc8772b9302ba945e56b0aa52c4
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD22 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f539.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF539 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 123463b7e4f509524fa25d0df752ec55739da19f9222fae28d1ea2d624f3ace1