Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d35f141f14b20e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-07-06 20:17:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: f7521fd8944a1f8c5c9f4065527dbb67 SHA-1: 3438b71925324652730965005a500cc4c5b4d382 SHA-256: 0d35f141f14b20e6427dc256a2f23fd313f78f68dcccabb833facec2188cae45
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and a high number of links per host further supports this. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0d6219b190---12210715341.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/sisedatavegibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://color-gateway.com/userfiles/file/punujefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca4caf5f4c3---nowixalezegebijoposofumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a109f58585c---87597280324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160865fc9ce09a---46592035348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8779708dfbe51df837493d54db8c46ae/birukununawenusudakux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://museuminiaturesbesalu.com/files/39547192536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhiringisamsankalimandir.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9987773286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608593083dd0c---kimodibipepegoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608271ac9866f---wowekuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca82be6dab5---woxuwev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae3a4d3933de4f427c38d0259a601e93/61625961212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenornaments.com/uplds/file/wodofudajidun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdesign.de/userContent/files/20210622225656-mejoralexoduwap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2fe8b0f7d3717e6a5a1b80f82d4b704/17869208127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygiftltd.com/userfiles/file/logepujisalev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sitoad.com/bbqjoekey/files/202106230726069372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://recapress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7587327682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d142e8f69---dogegirixusobilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/605b3e534b26c5e9b3b4b4665d753bf6/kimagokekuxakakeniwiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c844794e4---povefonuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscowprice.com/content/xuploadimages/file/wirukixozanaponusagaven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad89578c392---dekegimorix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcf84de819f---taxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+find+leading+coefficient+from+graphPDF 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_off0000dc88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC88 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f49f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF49F 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 49be722c652fe6e892a96498c507004828e516df0c3f366b24bc2a60002c8d10
font_02_sfnt_off00010da4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DA4 17712 bytes
SHA-256: 46972961783568f45f48fbbaac6e55096d20855ce83d1952f12224508b456264