Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d42a013e1aeebc7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-07-05 21:48:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 4a3468e8618e6f0909d839259ce9e8ab SHA-1: 1e5ff3ea36b734c2058f24547ab2a19cfde2a9c1 SHA-256: 0d42a013e1aeebc7e1740ef39961b1e93001566dcac4c52750200b97321ddf78
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV also strongly indicated maliciousness. Although no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised infrastructure suggests a phishing or malicious content delivery scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e41a5f2c8---7847199256.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2j3ul35kccu6gsh42l061ovn84/burifugubojifusubutabivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contal-farmer.com/uploads/files/limadadoniranizexoruxipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096656918629---roxuvovoratufexabasoxax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alanaf.ru/userfiles/files/7864387848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e838d9d6e---wemitivodovobafupoxiduxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7fa96579a0---rorukagoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/icm6quc1uvqi2rioeiu4qohkvt/34993124098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc20d9d26c---ranigononofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tanyadantus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40664c09eea1bb5bebcebe2d668176e1/xivoxax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uclerbaklava.com/resources/file/59334962422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lti5lla98snr74fmsi24r5arju/zozinivekirumis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f03620563c---wikiwivamoxasozarulun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bookatowncar.com/userfiles/file/zadem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agroadvanced.com/app/webroot/newsletters/editor/files/67778886240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnepropress.net/files/file/21322362012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le383.com/uploads/files/77220468686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096cd546e323---20277457379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanumed.ro/uploads/files/waraviwolumilurazagin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torgradio.ru/new/files/file/nilixude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ht5f4llq27eetno742890t0j7/43823334357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manenshop.com/upload/files/26909738709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoplan.su/userfiles/file/73339144592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=pollination+in+groundnutPDF 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_off0000f586.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF586 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010d98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D98 17560 bytes
SHA-256: 0c18e389619d84f0cf72f54d4375bf4de364bbb6588d60e1e9ab5f478155d75f
font_02_sfnt_off00013b7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B7A 10224 bytes
SHA-256: 6c39c906bccc0ba4b86797ec53f252d10de480d32de6b82e6e745206e930d434