Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d3701faef34762e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-08 08:37:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d56ed290a164f96c4e6b9201bf7afb05 SHA-1: b4089e9d945eb8e417716aa17c202787ab264c8a SHA-256: 0d3701faef34762efbcaabae64732895c6f152904ff160567cad088a52ac51a4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting it's used to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=w02m+bridge+rectifier+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c65eac9f2a8---jofesubijuzewagofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsverano.com/UserFiles/File/45382568664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5aeb62e95---95666590352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veitali.com/upload/files/86823802570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thongthien.vn/upload/files/64673727431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cba8f495ba7b380080de5b70aea1e6b5/46932500615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevenseahotel.com/uploads/images/files/raruzatonaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52468e8f33c40470c2a1c0e7a2e1cd06/sipuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestaerospace.com/uploads/file/31436281128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6b914eea0e---8600559701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074313129941---59543032180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e8259bc49---37904621904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dg37oeotu1plmrunncq0uhetq6/sexiwibotovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1p198nv5ro5lo05qdi2sc32v0p/75741916119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/vuvilazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cac08a659c---tutajetavemapusakibezijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dv2tbvq70q4aj001gks6kd4e74/6674896255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d77f17bdd3c---15364819678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0720ab82fc---gowuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f80b053fcbd1524ad0facaede136a07/37994321294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phoiinnhiet.com/images/uploads/files/18965049927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pbri.in/ACP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13681324501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ainlom06utvjaiemcpvrp9gpf/52936854467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwill.as/userfiles/file/rubarepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d68d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD68D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE9F 18940 bytes
SHA-256: 932b6cb4347bf4efd15efcc4e6954e9e505497717480b68e31f942627ffc340e
font_02_sfnt_off00011ffa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FFA 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 15535febf07928ea6cbedbde5bbd22c50333bdbdb29c6aa3f97c4e7a99534e8e