Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ca5faeea9ee3ff7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 16:20:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 48f328faa2759c1d484d176eaa10c145 SHA-1: 563a27f02a7bf44f54260b433d18cf12888c5ca9 SHA-256: 0ca5faeea9ee3ff7bbeef247fbc089e816369a85bdfd1dc48df33ae6d8247c75
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting and are part of a link farm. Heuristics indicate these are likely used to direct users to malicious content, potentially for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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 http://mywymc.com/userfiles/file/xoxobiloxe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nawooelcs.com/upload/userfiles/2021/07/files/210703082941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://language-coach.pl/uploads/files/muvasixekuledotafeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/33828660781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nangluongvada.com/uploads/files/85294905306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/wiroxigajodakak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intersat.lv/files/file/42216632206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/sozivozedaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowator-zpu.pl/userfiles/file/degobul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1960ihs.com/clients/e/e0/e0b58928a48036c9af8d6cfc9cffdd99/File/53217465560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wannawwannie.pl/userfiles/file/kalejilegagiwodekivazuten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dcb4653445a3104f550dc5db9582a21/64621077536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitoutdoorz.com/file/eyAcHjsbNX3hsTl7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prosquash.by/data/savimidepamiladiburovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pincailight.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021080512462973499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611f8402dcfd7---wedoparati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1540d3417b71e29b43f4b27933f30931/78395217039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/dazagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a950a2a6241---jujeragasetalul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lemarko.com/userfiles/file/gutexitoniguro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murphysbeads.com/clients/54316/File/gimamoxelumugimofexovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086194f2b30e---pojew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24e52250490783766c25958af50e27a1/lawobomenifikefeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dgag1vetgggg5ui9a6iig6b7f7/tawitasikujobedovekavuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161051679c4a27---danibubuwesudinigojun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=autocad+manual+pdf+2018PDF 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_off00010cc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CC0 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 5ee91f900ac0e9f152a9a9eaf2a42740c0104d546c4ff7c9460a96011b5c6833
font_01_sfnt_off000125f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125F7 20596 bytes
SHA-256: 4a0235933b9a0ea3ffcb8aff8c9ceb17f69a1b91a647da7a9eaed70a1f0301d1
font_02_sfnt_off00015ab7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15AB7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1