Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d5ce11b9136e63b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-08-06 19:57:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 3257594b878a8d82a61af0c327818f15 SHA-1: 502f2c97d7afc9d6893cf12e4ee11afc99f43451 SHA-256: 0d5ce11b9136e63b4222ca0849522d02e68e09a10331c6f06050421cb0a51206
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.001 Process Injection T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads, likely intended to lure users to malicious sites. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the link farm heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://asesorgubernamental.com/images/file/12442402506.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608876007a5a8---50513401367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ppk-kp3k.kkp.go.id/ver2/extra/ckfinder/core/connector/php/media/ckfinder/files/77834362625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cornerstonelaw.eu/userfiles//file/totadupejoxitedanonunoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91q5uo3j8gso4h8eekblop5mqa/3932410865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattingtoemrerogsnedker.dk/userfiles/file/petasuwimavaworominuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuni.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/28628107120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a74a9754027---bilegimozoxenuzefudep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d85acbd0ac---koruvudagikomezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asset-books.com/userfiles/file/70561476339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef7f67de0a---24319638179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606caff6203cd---romewurabiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xzass.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96888894977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalaserasia.com/upload///widakufamugafuredoxasir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nieqe9e0o7u505q0mst0rivf4d/pupotibudokaguxukuraze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acki73c29hhfvct49opdkv1mh5/71811117019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083173491add---41203051620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075cc6d89059---3901061806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makingthegradetexas.com/clients/d/d4/d4716c73f098ea79da165a2194b6736a/File/73151442678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blueyee.com/upload/file/170456187236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hizlipin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/damadenezuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=ejercicios+de+matem%C3%A1ticas+para+tercer+grado+de+primaria+para+imprimir+gratisPDF 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_off0000e892.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE892 17212 bytes
SHA-256: 67c4a547cdfcc7a6ba635072929b6626f2d8a93dfad4db8323a97e313d52ef8b
font_01_sfnt_off000113fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113FA 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 9cdcc1a3f5068c9d99698c7eef59c6a1c9c57cd795b36f81a104d7272891129c
font_02_sfnt_off00012cee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CEE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1