Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d84a1d2469408e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 06:47:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 9e49d9de7a68205d34a6c809ecb22ad5 SHA-1: d88b3c085bc5a9ff629eeb4e026547df505aba4b SHA-256: 0d84a1d2469408e9c14e5f4e503a66b48bbe1f5a9d228ef22d41e4d01bdd341a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=forensic+entomology+introduction+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hd4b06l59q27iqa5940eta6ov7/45690651610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pngroup.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34309152305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splhardware.com/UploadFile/file/2021072917383173499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611bb6ad66e30---kisodenujan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d569d89dc07979680a408ea3e6d2f44c/3837863455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/955f8lhli4e2frhflpa8hll7d0/vawodezutijiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2774b881ce---fifemazorodexuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecnoservizi.com/userfiles/files/bugivomojinuzefopobekiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.abcklima.hu//data/editorfile/50358576401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fanta-life.com/userfiles/file/86915131304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08adb672c44be698fb9384e614459882/nijifaruwimarigafol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c707a4c10446fd8c3bbd85956c2cd2a4/38878671169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motopujcovnateplice.cz/userfiles/file/dogep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/lojujilizotololupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://majorpropertygroup.com/userfiles/files/jojebenepago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hosvagyok.hu/userfiles/file/lavubofonekugem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokozentrale.de/idata/nepejulupisoguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e82b95742f---keboxigefebekenunetirova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f56de2c2c8---nobetakabizesobewagukinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160865bb76a78f---latuxulurofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5p9rbtpf4e96cmpn8d063au09t/98587333556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853bf4e3d48---77958232983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turskazka.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99438935124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/828ce34c553a0422bd9b867cc95b8ed2/kumizur.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_off0000be24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE24 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d63b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD63B 10992 bytes
SHA-256: f0aa12172e9fdb3a5a2a00819b3d2c7b91bfe56b193248bd505947c765a0cb1d
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF8F 15780 bytes
SHA-256: 69608af743315be7db379290119dced6fb015f33c59ca7acabc530e52f3667b2