Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c859472a8e92d80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-16 08:22:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 130fd4e4daab47d0500f9b7a78dc6a3c SHA-1: bc92a6bf74a593e14532476c7987c562ed786f15 SHA-256: 0c859472a8e92d8059b0a08b22549ea5b5f6df365c3aa76d73aa27ce43ab6c21
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to host malicious files or redirect users. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=alexa+app+for+computer+windows+10 PDF link annotation
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c9453f4d1dc9dab4299231fc3d9e6cb/43989884287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empresa-venta.hr/files/75944773428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614165b77dc9b---bezexapozilipekaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guoyangmoju.com/userfiles/files/88977594466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/wekupomuberenuzonexubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zxpgw.com/userfiles/file/13371884969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f7034e51a---8584990540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danieldesignpro.com/userfiles/22137527523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linuxnewyork.com/draft/media/zusulitevivurubakivoxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.poolsrus.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fitepajofotevoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140909b12ac3---17043222302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.euro-fly.eu/userfiles/files/wodoxaboxukenenekuzifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saveurspoitoucharentes.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65413200238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oriental-kitchens.com/userfiles/files/wipogivutojij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://work4shop.cz/userfiles/file/2608169577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfatreyd-mebel.ru/archive/images/file/wemaned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c90eabac0715c40c8c79a65c42e8fe06/rolimaturoginogeneje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xanbiente.de/userfiles/file/6311867013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atsolution.org/userfiles/file/20210911130259218789672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radekslodkiewicz.pl/files/file/9785258791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izeninfo.net/admin/upload/files/21851845528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarhomepage.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/nokudabivopitegodilimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161418597b2dd4---56962256726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zilalcooling.com/other_files/File/kebinitexekal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17235236487.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_off0000deab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEAB 11224 bytes
SHA-256: 98ca457be5967c7f6b7bd8c35dd733d0dfb3820e2f6e47e53c01aec4490ff128
font_01_sfnt_off0000f910.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF910 17276 bytes
SHA-256: 9618093610470797ddbc946b33859cfe9ebc71814d4c5cb74ae3c0bac98984b0
font_02_sfnt_off000125a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1