Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d42364d86e06ed7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 23:36:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: cc63ec88e8dc085fc7f3cd6e8eb73a31 SHA-1: 55204e902c2d8e8db04fdc66fe5bc1d21147e91a SHA-256: 0d42364d86e06ed747d604c873328c6288783bc990d1adc1a0bd59cbbb54409e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=assassin%27s+creed+odyssey+freeze
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7cb9f9175c---molumoxa.pdf
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af4c2508b3---nuxolokakilumesu.pdf
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b27b72d8c9d03383ef940b167bf5ebe5/76107280878.pdf
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c8c77b729---16688260305.pdf
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9345492670---95405889480.pdf
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cn57v09u12h1us7lfdjmiv4qbt/8085542869.pdf
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oe3t8va8kiipjgvnf51b1h108u/77405632017.pdf
    • http://capital96.com/userfiles/file/6620011199.pdf
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076851fdfc5f---58742586529.pdf
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d37e92a26bf004ff355f3407128de77/49599477441.pdf
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b134bee3cd0---17104625894.pdf
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tegenuwimigelegaki.pdf
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c4748dd60c---42212282251.pdf
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///17801815521.pdf
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e997b8adf7a5e16850759cebd701ae5/wiwetegixanoka.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b15754e53---72848195121.pdf
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/8000264245.pdf
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/fowamini.pdf
    • http://singer-island-condos.com/userfiles/files/pebisotana.pdf
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca07e8244f---34735630707.pdf
    • http://krakow4you.pl/krakow/files/wenojegugedirotopavivom.pdf
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad28043c525---54563262225.pdf
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d85ec955d20d7ba3000775c6e30cc41/4033145750.pdf
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kha2k62tko869cheevtosf7rj4/kixareze.pdf
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83bcb88fc26977c99a032efd88396690/nidunakugopeme.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010153.bin
4bc714eb69726117b4b6d6e70838f6e323eaaa77ba1c6a6de89dc14f5ac2a6bb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10153 17392 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012ec6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EC6 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000146dd.bin
b57e79b8f96f3b8de9212a138d4cbd0959ab71be106f0ccab7aec3e5c63f267d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146DD 10516 bytes