Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ca714a7995384e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-08-15 05:14:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: ac9c44e1b99602bb802574155307729a SHA-1: 2b56e4f6784425f97a07bb142597afdd38a7ae07 SHA-256: 0ca714a7995384e1a3d64bf6ad327595ee76a46ea15096180e34e9b1c1fbe051
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond what the heuristics reveal.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

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://roland-toys.eu/userfiles/file/51338733220.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://abwingssuffolk2.com/uploads/files/76391246590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/smdt5q8k13a18hreodsbu9l86i/vudupenufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roofmed.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608649a5625c8---39366652964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/158c5bi8ia53jdu0bvitfh81t6/bulosujez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/opc8ft311142buqsbkkdbgtfvk/82834041563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carlaschroyen.com/content_docs/faxigenevabudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvkinter.com/file_media/file_image/file/sopedekonodepujukibuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1nudnhsug3li2rigppiirjstd/vawozaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/se39ni7fuacro2tgm0vngcc094/vimuwuredusozanenegazim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f621a6cb7---juzokubufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsterparkett.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sgcklfq4uoc488kapvvcdsleuh/kawuxapibaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerrutistudio.eu/userfiles/files/1190053869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160739ee56c7e4---xutasuranedufise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uniontend.com/userfiles/files/musatonosomozupujipozilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1dd522c1b6---jimefidajudezuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synergytaekwondo.com/click2buy_newp/userfiles/file/wujiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160704d084ec45---pulerupufuwiter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96064a75d18322034a6588126190d617/famunuzimalotap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/dorufevufebiliwinevudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b94e92c4309---zegejozafakire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cff2ac513bd23e38cd0ae9937bd8c2e/64857389801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.erenang.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a63c29365f---gipek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://septumdent.com/img/userfiles/files/96551086508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086637cb98e2---24169889080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharmnet.cz/ckfiles/files/files/98504390739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ihdbd.org/upload/files/sinavapegofavixonelajajim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+put+sesh+in+pairing+modePDF 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_off0000e5d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5D3 17156 bytes
SHA-256: a3ed5b5721d5c97cae1e49cc7a1c8fa77c198cf708a118cd678fc54ca0131412
font_01_sfnt_off0001127e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1127E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A95 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 12ba1e113fe417ac4eaeac35cf6de9a47958840e41aef2320e2f18d7c23dc513