Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c97a3f432d6de61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 00:57:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d0e1c1276cdc37f1f06f7dad356d5408 SHA-1: a9fe594fca81d81f03c8baa9babe7c6c6f8191f8 SHA-256: 0c97a3f432d6de6132e54e8417d5829d301f82306395209b34e5a9e559163851
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristic point towards an attempt to leverage external resources for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2290275f50---wekupoma.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://giorgiosantinelli.it/file/nitixale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullmagicweekend.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wubirezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5cd4acb09ce2de7bcc7982210c46730/pisojimaxodav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tfni2sknae184gh7evk06oec8b/8051040604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6a21f47b7cb81131711b7ea7de1b9b8/38730481098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thelonerangerfanclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73692611339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qik785kf422mf6840ajg63osgp/44468832995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorrstrechy.cz/UserFiles/File/27013786768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtd.com.pk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50186570146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doo-san.com/userfiles/file/20210817065737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f15abb4a4622e9b1da7666fb8fc57414/senunoxugepavavul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuzeyilac.com/resimler/files/40313785305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f4dd1825a---86174051885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajitutorial.com/admin/userfiles/file/16652822527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hohsingfiber.com/ufiles/files/wimowiwijodedudiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shrootgroup.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-22/20210722083411165097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakhoanhanai.com/images/files/xomedudejozonedetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/333ff1923a2a3cd9ebb31c9b0270db8f/xizakajukogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160726d738f055---63494321559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seasonsblinds.com/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juresabinulanorogil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09b808d425b2ec70fe8e6fe9fa0eeeb0/mutivemuraxujugax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kedehg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/defurofovuminaxunefeteni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girilawfirm.com/content_files/files/69695661456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=model+of+human+occupation+assessmentsPDF 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_off00010eac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EAC 16968 bytes
SHA-256: ad61f74ac68800c9baca29f0063dcb691762048450a87cf2889f881c377f1a8e
font_01_sfnt_off00013aa6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AA6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000152bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x152BD 10880 bytes
SHA-256: ce3ff7845a33749321307b607529abefd7bc863812a4caefceb524fa65f323d9

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