Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d254db9f2df4b86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.4 KB Created: 2021-07-28 03:57:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 332ccc57067f44675311d5fe644883ac SHA-1: cc3fa972742763e6f92447fe0c9223bb42a533b3 SHA-256: 0d254db9f2df4b86887f1158fc39c8518cf1ede5ea677b9d75e3aae9cedf9447
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classification strongly suggests malicious intent. The presence of multiple PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://velo.hu/UserFiles//file/figilulojanazurefudopil.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb05cf2cc05---17463575653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/891b0a38d6a90fe0a648cc200c510403/gitexifakavebano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086707aaa7ae---23877153967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windmill-bv.com/userfiles/files/77246461270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082eb60b43b1---vomiwesalenixajodozizex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kvbm.org/pds/userfiles/files/56833171764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23259cab6f19f5c5091e34de9c51a81f/31550434653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d9a0e2407e---xasoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/user_data/image//file/wuxifovodugujow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9355156137b0c1d2859800d0f29efb62/sosuvuvepikulomebaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rafaellucenaehijos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24578689500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p35huktch8tq5atlu3md1ftku6/kevuxazusoliwowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1aced4bec2---90630857892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e3edu.vn/public/ckfinder/core/connector/php/connector.phppublic/uploadsfiles/jujug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvkumariajnkvv.org/singhania/downloads/file/mokumolitetepetunibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vhml29k69pvc00j93h39sp8u0s/62104675295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronikavilla.hu/userfiles/file/83983056907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b037c5d40b---134099340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090175261fd4---lokoxolodim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfavit.tv/userfiles/file/37615776169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poolpoint.be/uploads/file/34410852819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iltorg.ru/upload/file/75832670072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalitelivideoizle.com/resimler/files/dirotivodalafew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eubeer.vn/uploads/files/sewidimenividaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=training+calendar+template+excelPDF 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_off00013505.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13505 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 8c8938b7dcd4b758849bb26815238b86c501e880b34fc161e1ea6e6539cdc291
font_01_sfnt_off00014d1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D1A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001652c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1652C 17628 bytes
SHA-256: 863987fcd8096380e837084f178817c0343d9d627e8f87b4f8d2121cc1c68adf