Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0da62acf79498cf5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.8 KB Created: 2021-08-17 23:23:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 29ee2f6f06c29a1187d710cbe3ebcf84 SHA-1: de018c39cbcb91c9d9dc7b2bc374155811561c15 SHA-256: 0da62acf79498cf5354be16788b895dacf28bbe81506cb28bc5c89d7ad85950b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and UTM parameters in the URLs further supports the phishing and link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9875

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://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/978c6e00b5f9d60fe64eb80ca1c0adf3/27151061707.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kingcarmotorista.net/uploads/files/59108722490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrogears.com/survey/userfiles/files/82132997859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8115b13995e5a9af7ccd3ac3667ccb75/77601941192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/74810845191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63d253eeacd0b8be1706c1d3f7bce267/73593998141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hideab.se/tc/Mediagalleri/file/fapajotopupudikeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofranzoni.eu/userfiles/files/56739402076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluiettgriffinwilliams.org/clients/2/2a/2accc941c041fffeac9751862bb8fe41/File/borolenogufamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canhtoanland.com/upload/files/5282773471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05b5d739bfb50c65d960a532b4189a18/17052357475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzsvybbs.at/userfiles/file/83402209217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096979c8035b---68677245270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tjpapigroup3.com/contents//files/bamerifaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wildnaturetravel.com/File/jitim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanamihic.com//files/rotofivaxabapekebofadowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e9f6491ba8---gevin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16110d2bd6768b---60450099782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioprogettoarchitettura.eu/userfiles/files/gitijuxorituzupojim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nevisnews.com/userfiles/xorida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlbooks.in/data/eimages/file/98536875726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca331787b7---zizul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/65748824708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cikpmlmpckcge80vn1m2oovnu5/jinerurinob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e223fef93d8b793adb28462823f7baa/wujojididijufufin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087882be8891---xegogire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=h322+powder+for+223PDF 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_off0001200f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1200F 17976 bytes
SHA-256: 451a1303dbeb822a2646c64b4913ae7c91937861d436a76cf7fea9d080050f4e
font_01_sfnt_off00014f42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F42 10192 bytes
SHA-256: 5275bff9016eea59b13ccff5161c9a2ce2b07e576897a47d5c45a4e65a7c28a4
font_02_sfnt_off00016645.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16645 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1