Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d5328dab1ffc924…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-09-17 09:48:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b95079f9628fd6ef7cb23e24afd68ef1 SHA-1: 481d1b5537150b8d7e7e3f80011df2544d2fb770 SHA-256: 0d5328dab1ffc924f1a55a62ec56156cc9653265d3fe81909ee9f6e9d49b69df
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous links pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites, as indicated by the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The embedded URLs are designed to redirect users to these malicious destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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 https://kidneystonetreatment.in/userfiles/files/84401179137.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://a899.net/userfiles/file/22328375234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega-treid.com/userfiles/files/59981646559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://land89.com/ckupload/files/regigot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53793be6d4c31b7feba73beebbec7d2c/loxologomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciattella.net/images/file/wunexubepumusarilukefas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a460ddb731c017e9869b159eb600357/26210080537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicodama.it/userfiles/files/62450290577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techcessgroups.com/userfiles/file/pabig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nicenpos.com/userData/board/file/xazesadatagesijamasuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.luthier-auxerre.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74851609979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c26427ccc6---wokazilewatodavip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://print-resource.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95444533201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijfbacknumber.com/editor_up/2846391307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maintogelonline2.com/contents/files/pekonobuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210911135508329052137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorp.pl/userfiles/files/fotipojafor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingmanplanningdemo.com/userfiles/files/pafavokavibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hs-hofgastein.salzburg.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lajaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hud101.vn/webroot/img/posts/files/bafigenememawesupenokatuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterjobintl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fukebiwajuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guchen.ru/d/files/kewuwivedug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namlinhchivietnam.net/userfiles/image/file/mituwizufesuvapelono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ises.ca/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/23431321528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreaticketland.com/userfile/file/noxunego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db1pfdhkkn3vvur3pfstpiee1r/pozopomemukalix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=midnight+in+paris+full+movie+free+onlinePDF 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_off0000be08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE08 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d61f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD61F 11104 bytes
SHA-256: 0134a260399f1a61f2e52be12e3a6b396ddcc1b4e47ff0c3a314316bdd6695cc
font_02_sfnt_off0000efa0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFA0 17340 bytes
SHA-256: 5c6180817af42db892223f3ffe8da55c76204d2f5c6f70031a7f7b7a50009b36