Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0cf01114fd9d99c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 17:10:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 54794e3f14d539c422e909a333d0ad30 SHA-1: 5f7d98030071ed4189e4edb5a606006d99d35ecc SHA-256: 0cf01114fd9d99c95b84a11c7710b73ec747f48693861bc47eb1286b61ac96e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The primary purpose seems to be redirecting users to malicious content, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://kabelkyaobuv.sk/editor_uploads/files/nonumadadijaw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134b17199193---98687152597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moutierrozeille.fr/userfiles/file/kolewexasudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.nz/upload/polowuleditiwafiberute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--22cjbbm2eyae3ehabdb4kqdtae3dxnnc1fhf.com/user_img/files/fodexozidagonorekukakejak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hahapediatric.com/uploads/files/202109071558025261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vers-ma.de/userfiles/file/jaran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megalightgroup.lv/uploads/files/21937926435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assotechne.eu/userfiles/files/89273149972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vsrru.ru/userfiles/file/84075214126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48f1abea11eeed18adb7668857063f50/robanajonerobogof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kgmda.com/upload/files/14236222410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastwoodfamily.net/userimages/nigabemaruvefibasadek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydangson.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/wivikokese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64217203935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134b88da9785---xolujak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nmcs.ca/userfiles/files/58795252094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.restaurant-latableedevercel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mujibibonugos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.somdattabasu.com/fckimages/file/33064319774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colleges-in-tamilnadu.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/baturuwosog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oev0a9of6fer786jcqkiqm2nl9/bopavane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcoloringpages.com/userfiles/file/80861365865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q3hu6qiks8clllvf0qf4igftj5/giwiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uco-kampen.com/media/files/mukapesurefake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=iron+man+black+sabbath+bass+tab+pdfPDF 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_off0000eddf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDDF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000105f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F6 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 9d50d8088223810a8615253d4ebdb880dc0b4bd4b5add223ce713e147254aa71
font_02_sfnt_off00011e92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E92 21048 bytes
SHA-256: 711d03665bd5aa80594bd910d28a5c5be81b1920fc087ded54489fe957816520