Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0de818d366f6cf53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-07-09 10:31:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: ab80a296abfe7252c8705f142a5b7b71 SHA-1: 35e07ac239f29cd455612a8aa79f2597a8eaf07a SHA-256: 0de818d366f6cf5331607e614328ef95e929911c0c9e2e2f5b389aefd296d2f4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to lead users to malicious websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://aivieksteslaivas.lv/userfiles/file/15223847136.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ebcf61a707---vesutimos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiaciran.org/cache/fck_files/file/98743348533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altbuket.ru/files/pukoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veraschwemmle.de/fckdata/file/tekipafunekowenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/xebufivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/files/vazam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d02646022c---voxogesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jqjj0nuoo3okiubtf0chl3h35p/tonepilewevesisixujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunarchegypt.com/userfiles/file/zaterebawipodutisezoxuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b56771bfb08---21220518276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qotal44egm689roklal1t85g6t/xuzul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solidpractise.com/files/userfiles/file/xunosomaxoxusifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glbtrader.com/userfiles/file/42225172404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ff2cd4b7d4---furejerakusugaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bohemiamaestro.com/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98950967402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d69d284cbaeb7697f8f12eb0bb8f3522/gebanididurenoxixusulomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081311f44a7a---94147207099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zold-kommando.hu/files/tixosotelujetoxofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomland.com/sites/bloomland.com/files/lovak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607720ab4026d---90366500086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhhs78.org/clients/63854/File/1289069378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f18a45de2---7819698695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spearmanhsreunion.org/clients/e/e1/e1754705b4c076d7cd520c5e9e79ed07/File/wesawabazibadadotekaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce61982af3---97000427569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=never+back+down+3+movie+downloadPDF 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_off0000f328.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF328 16676 bytes
SHA-256: 2dee20fc4ef191db07c65481da5f482a97cf6d00effe5e03a5efea7f6a7a6fc1
font_01_sfnt_off00011e6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E6F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013686.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13686 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 70099590e6c3451ffcae3afffe334c090506f068681c214ccdd5c8afe25d9ff5