Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c825171e8aaa416…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:51:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 3d496c0a2c6c287f852257af088b3d89 SHA-1: 7ba1896a3905357a21faec4ae2b2fa3af74df7ab SHA-256: 0c825171e8aaa416277d7efed2cde990a4a7d0369825a1890f58867aae8f772e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to various external URLs, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains. The presence of numerous links, some with UTM parameters, suggests an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://karinbentum.nl/uploads/file/96512797536.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/823d68354dec947e6731418935810fea/wusapinozegowigivoweja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulyaskantin.hu/uploads/frontend/files/71148126997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-daomeng.com/upload/userfiles/files/9c2912b0f81abe6c9d412c9814e29b36.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kemenyseprosiklos.hu/upload/file/dalow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fonixkoncert.hu/upload/file/71679360440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/744132faf31d7addc58c12fc02cc6cfa/pijamajexenunigenojox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanumed.ro/uploads/files/45759176342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maternites-catholiques.org/ressource/site-image/files/jelemipusawilut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a573b88294c---74090878438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b345e0560c3---25577779672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946a79c5f00---44293883766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozari-ua.com/files/file/wiritisopideva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tectrongim.com/uploads/files/57377201650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmxn.com/userfiles/file/20210626032149_4vy2al.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbcehyodmtf1czh.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/lepilegigufadirojosezupuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maychieuvinh.vn/upload/files/81425628244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://applexin.com/ttpsea/files/file/94417681448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dexgerm.com/data/file/userfiles/files/85955884440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnhaduong.com/images/uploads/files/sedeguko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d8c59b8b67---vatitixujorobelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/tunagikewoxitigakajusas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nayyaralidada.net/alpha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43365244041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=history+of+behavior+modification+pdfPDF 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_off0000d228.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD228 17760 bytes
SHA-256: 7ee5ea90af1c95330d1dd7d99f7cf3991c1bb1c2b67d2d513e551b38edadf069
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffe5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFE5 11152 bytes
SHA-256: 901c44c3ad625739339298093d692e5b0e85225b9a8e5db091e720940d278d8f
font_02_sfnt_off000119a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1