Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c96ae8a0a0fa207…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-08-30 10:06:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e660e0287454f747b3b5df5bb7d98676 SHA-1: fc67af02df2e58060c645a5d44b9dbd4742ff895 SHA-256: 0c96ae8a0a0fa2076d84ed2d7a1013faa14bde99b6657fbe23a65848b91a482f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised websites and potentially malicious URLs. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an intent to deliver phishing content or download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+perimeter+of+a+rectangular+sheet+is+100+cm+if+the+length+is+35+cm+find+the+breadth
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073fe719fd39---kadok.pdf
    • http://esipro.fr/userfiles/file/kajipafusolotujemanud.pdf
    • http://breakevenpoint.pl/uploads/editor/file/15403238482.pdf
    • https://justbuymeds.net/userfiles/file/ledutekawimuwuzajenor.pdf
    • http://podwierzba.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1610767178.pdf
    • http://novichiha.ru/pic/file/2589438904.pdf
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab046f0f328013febcc00492262ce660/56674712583.pdf
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6212b54f44654f7344c6685e9d7ff978/zadujofu.pdf
    • http://se-ty.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/kitewerukorusibeka.pdf
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfd32418fa27e53f31348eed2ca9ef30/vapasazopalu.pdf
    • https://vvpta-irvine.org/userfiles/file/zefunenumurapeluf.pdf
    • http://cuacuontoanthang.com/media/file/91130697081.pdf
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f4fca66d5e---detenadozoxukotugixo.pdf
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f7b268ed925be287805fd0bf1813ba3/giwubasefipemamopagaxavam.pdf
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d3e1156604f1b05a4280d7b6a00eea5/12469628600.pdf
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac6866630bf---10942550708.pdf
    • https://psychologgia.pl/Upload/file/16670110279.pdf
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/58304841425.pdf
    • https://abe-rdc.com/userfiles/file/92225565552.pdf
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc5f7bf2bef1a71720311be3586aa337/sesipawix.pdf
    • http://merwepizza.com/upload/file/sojibazipapuxukevipifuj.pdf
    • http://thietkewebbacninh.com/webroot/img/files/86451572579.pdf
    • https://mk-sito.it/uploads/file/zonokibiga.pdf
    • https://larustt.com/upload/ckfinder/files/netij.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bd58.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD58 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d56f.bin
95200241dd0181e43ba087efae4e87ea460dadd9b40d1ceedcb3ff349ce8bee8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD56F 11748 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0f5.bin
f5c29601241ef1750cef5e3e66accf905ec0ba4d83c5b680a3123590b1a71710
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0F5 15508 bytes