Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c705ddd773c26c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.7 KB Created: 2021-07-19 21:17:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: b8ab63f3d74367c602229febd3406c80 SHA-1: 221665df87c33b747f6d76d2b34e4b3e02f67026 SHA-256: 0c705ddd773c26c9a3d552bfe5dfc778847ab02f349bf43dd5c743a2d60988a1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to other PDF files hosted on compromised websites. This pattern is commonly used for phishing campaigns or to distribute further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://ost-fogging.com/upload/files/ruminutuxin.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/it1c7ojj4vegi5h3e1rtftp37n/87056021956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75ac6131ba848f89d5e806b7ecf26423/kaxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b33bf42e7efbc381d06052b32c72339/refozakuketoparefatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roomart.uz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22026584261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a4cc673a3b326ac286b01bc4da64d64/96381027745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fdb5e52400---nusanikasidivilaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fonnepal.org/userfiles/file/bisum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houselandia.ru/files/72815957411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artin-intranet.com/ckupload/files/86082424276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfekttorun.pl/pliki/36139680720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79c12648f3911a43fc620bb30133d7b8/54555075938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7e2b6e2811---65399689720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0486fb799d---76983387360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atrsara.ir/resource/files/86375905746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e01a30e4569e85bdf4c147a34ccf63d/2799966620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planbmedia.hufiles/jatufujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31a1uqjtrifqs23218tta1h13v/jozasaromatenafivisesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0n3r31jvfqqr6kqu1e460n2fg6/vamovab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e0ea3cb544---70306758266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099351e86827---29975409521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=conveyor+system+meaningPDF 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_off000121c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121C5 16964 bytes
SHA-256: c45afc4a315322b2af2cb179c6b9b64288f8562a3fa85577fff158e82de582d4
font_01_sfnt_off00014d90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000165a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x165A7 10616 bytes
SHA-256: f8ad5c0621ef2f737072a02cea07c501d278bbc4be77c1609dcea934606a3aaa