Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0cfa76039e0c41b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-07-16 07:49:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: b480ccfba95077ab18e84f50b1141140 SHA-1: aca7a25325229d6293a1a737ef5cc5c339b0fc5e SHA-256: 0cfa76039e0c41b7fcb984d5bd851c452af3f87078a1dbebec8f6537ee9883d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to other PDF files, many hosted on domains associated with compromised content management systems or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or serving further malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://bahia-group.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sinalevaxegejevukajo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/besaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lezeckastenakosice.sk/upload/files/xedezotep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wooshin.kr/uploaded/file/172291973060c6483eedd8b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e82eeb8596---51080256340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://collegemahan.ir/basefile/collegemahanir/files/zowinubusajidewofila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elbag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d6d955957c3d47d3389cbc1b8fb3a92/nebigonoxemuvez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poongdung.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210612_9C1EF7221692B0C9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908be728b1c---vitivukokukesijalalusif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomland.com/sites/bloomland.com/files/17739831651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0ad93b11e7---xosazofewebexarirukupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de1e80aee3ff71d81b89ef2c03f815cb/vivilezazasuvotimirudexor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5871cb6d90---69172752939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crescentcarpets.com/userfiles/file/zawegagupumuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgpeo.pl/users//file/rozebozurupuxisusuxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anaksemut.com/contents//files/92242649580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lecachet.fr/docs/files/19974517628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strahovka66.ru/userfiles/file/mivasafizaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160829dc071e04---fezifad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skiclubraonbaccarat.fr/pdf/tewatoxanevebomafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1f10e677f---givetopimije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://go2germany.ru/files/file/nuzat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thueotodn.com/uploads/image/files/gegefalumadaberuvilesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irishheritagesociety.net/clients/7/7f/7f3653e4c5d791bf76f28d2bf9929747/File/tumowetivamawagilanefiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=vector+1092a+battery+charger+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_off0000bc48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC48 11200 bytes
SHA-256: 42dbfd2ba219b452718157772981fe5ddd6309965515cfee31d481a577713ad1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d681.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD681 15676 bytes
SHA-256: c61ba1caebf41f88ff9700e4e7e0eeb00f00309ed78e4d5e34ca8b53269f86f7
font_02_sfnt_off0000fedb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEDB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1