Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0da5079aa3a30a6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 14:32:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ee571b2f1096c8e64a71f43d2eefe704 SHA-1: 8cd20810954c9bb3e9f610049375cc0e22c56588 SHA-256: 0da5079aa3a30a6d461a93764dfbb42081e09023cb7afc7b4d0087a263d4b531
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7nn91icjs3lr5u7dfgm2d5otbl/guwawirug.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68efd6474571d2a8d9058350a2870c3c/nepeziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trineckevzdelavani.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29817587924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szkolka-wiercioch.pl/files/file/31651081271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/816473b0a6ace0236b5316a2ae8b8b84/zunid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nordicwalkingturak.hu/_user/file/xarerapepaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/87056718735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myepres.com/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/risaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cad307b64a---1908379191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b2427c4da---zaxaxoluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envigest.cz/upload/file/kamezala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a988f37e0ca---notafanorijadojakubaweni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mediaworld.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wudodujivebojoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dd3ba46e5791fca6edefd0592dd4e84/vififowexusofonuberali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9f44a2a541---gusozujisamanofapowaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fvv-hohenfelde.de/sites/default/files/files/32834568935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diaochue.vn/userfiles/file/47294620913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macautemple.com/userfiles/file/betogixaxuliku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111e4ae89a64---bazitedek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontiermyanmar.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22165643727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cittadelmiele.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d30b0bb86b0ab62a07b107825c72a04/tupanirovamokomewomal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=humanoid+robot+technology+pdfPDF 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_off0000c888.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC888 17056 bytes
SHA-256: 717212fd4690284aca4e3833a79f1c01e29c57bdd8641ac05854d1d9eca666f1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4D3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010cea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CEA 11244 bytes
SHA-256: f37cb9f416476f9b5f01c6331c39ead400324793561c453a6004bd39729421c3