Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d9e57860a78bfbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-07-31 13:24:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 845039f53c039de756f9ac78b5a6323d SHA-1: 3ac85ac0eea81de2e67a18038e39897db116d9f2 SHA-256: 0d9e57860a78bfbfb2804076857aefdad2162bf2faf6ad7356b224e3464d3b4c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. Static analysis reveals it functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://massimoandyuethui.com/clients/69227/File/10625737370.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0132f194f9d6c809deb38791f37a7872/zurip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab52784e65a---85645404623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyalpan.hu/_user/file/rubuwikalefojusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5c0a728ddd---2679944116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldartline.ua/userfiles/file/wepafabenifazibol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v5868pun9ghvtt2jba55qmarog/kutize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahubunting1.com/contents//files/98245270088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mvclassof1990.com/clients/8/8c/8ca0ba2c7a07c5cd1f21f9fc323c16c5/File/91782967186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc9a26893a772693624763e1f63a3349/sejaberapuvabitusevuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnktools-th.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96189022746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plnjl.com/userfiles/files/sixumojonixidasusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marigabung.com/contents//files/nisurologufupakivav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pronobile.de/catalog/file/danavawivibewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/509252344b15eebdcb17d25864bf0b0b/21098705849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/frqeqm0vubtt1oljjsli4cdaar/5892054488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eabd0a8e0df7d665b929f601d8fe48b3/ralepiranekamanizesajab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e0fedf6fb67ec9bd507c0f6ce68c436/47740421444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/518521d648758187ebc378a871c04b6e/jugobup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd5e66bb992---46615456168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaskinfamilyreunion.com/clients/b/b7/b798c9f9e2af69c3a5b950a06e4ade8e/File/94172968836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=tabla+de+vacaciones+por+ley+2020PDF 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_off0000f09a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF09A 18448 bytes
SHA-256: 3e69417aabbc437be61ebcc5e8a765e1c09d2676d4765104ef1fe825ababa626
font_01_sfnt_off00011f4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F4C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013763.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13763 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 543313ee934e4dd2611c8d36a5424a8cd6d6ce82c40b93ab5db68df969befa90