Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0cd100d7750f7ec0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 06:10:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: f990b48cb4920979cbdb0bf1814dcca2 SHA-1: 18c7ca58f86fd7080d6e9345171391fdf86878c1 SHA-256: 0cd100d7750f7ec050ee71940dc5aa6fef61d5a12e552c6bbadfc7e15782f087
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, some of which appear to be compromised CMS upload storage. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9926

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://vector-mebel.ru/uploads/files/94209048961.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/xugufojuxidomejufedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blevy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17965367866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c21e773f209---segagoxizebajesitizemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careersourceokaloosawalton.com/files/public/dewadukevufuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nofatrans-int.com/userfiles/file/gegujajibeluwekabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elosc.com/upFile/file///ITX202108131721596988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qr3utmp8ctjsh77h384ok24mkg/mopukizuzupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-business-plan.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/89370083224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202106/file/bebipatid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ei-hotel.com/free_images/files/98493199171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e01875467a2---kikigupulimawasuzinaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassungsservice4you.de/bilder/file/2569998595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanhoadautu.vn/static/uploads/editor/files/mufakotowomozupof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/40339724179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607caa904e5eb---guvutijubeneri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lordoptika.hu/files/files/82383460995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiu-hang.com/upfiles/editor/files/gokudidugogojejojijukenul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbtele.com/en/cache/fck_files/file/65039561413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denkobarbell.com/_upload/files/32942797885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalyna.ua/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/48374422390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed693982cb---71520534089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2jg3ji9c65i8fs7mc3tvt9uto6/kidoxatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c92485b881---35299363806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=1979+prowler+travel+trailer+manualPDF 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_off0000b3c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3C7 15212 bytes
SHA-256: 0d948d3a24369ee5940127185c1b776a16f46351764a02cd0fac24f1769df9b0
font_01_sfnt_off0000da80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA80 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f297.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF297 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 887d254fee2c960ebc53d85b5e2497052afa9d8bf99d750ff11901eb7244dd3a