Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d07fcf1e0d385ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-06-19 03:43:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 0c4bf2c2066ca51b2fdc3e2828648e3d SHA-1: a9b0727fd11f201d51216e7a66a1f104ac4f7d18 SHA-256: 0d07fcf1e0d385ae73f6f9e6db97575c9f7dda91c777e56a384c5bd18bb19eb6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, with the latter identifying it as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links point towards a malicious redirection or download scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://www.anandtirth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ggu854dan7h9bdrl57f5in4mu2/94369690408.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sh-ruiyangcpa.com/userfiles/file/2021-6/%5C/2021619623542123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160877d7bd3f66---56003662820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cbdb45d685---bolajuridavivuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omak1968.com/clients/71178/File/7992586801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160711532cc66e---2073724003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076daf2aef27---37129752761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charterfori.ir/basefile/charterforiir/files/milazatuxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ural-kip.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mobovorujatupumijodut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skolicka.eu/foto/images/file/ropemekesakemunovejateviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f256acb31b16b452499116d4b384434d/64981007515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021050420144973499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalparkhotel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sizewufukavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d8f5ed151---56814085432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd240e47a49---zuwumirutotuluzoxojotexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+graded+price+guidePDF 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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f345.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF345 6744 bytes
SHA-256: ffeb89eaad713c9717385028f79c9757067aafb2c2382ea8cbab0e6efe35a425
font_01_sfnt_off0001042d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1042D 5248 bytes
SHA-256: 5f49c9b87045b5e8aafc80b7c8fade04afd4aa4b8be7205cb544482fbc7d6ba3
font_02_sfnt_off000115fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115FA 11448 bytes
SHA-256: c874adaa7eb2ff8160faae97d00a746674052eebdf37e12b1aa62474df742003
font_03_sfnt_off00013cba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CBA 16204 bytes
SHA-256: c988415812f594187b0a0ed75dc52802e798e1695b49bd300f8412a65040a449