Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0df0371a4e099002…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-06-06 21:14:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: f87f7e270d8d0a7457968bf768cbe98b SHA-1: d89741561515baa055411c7f65c30012a02221ae SHA-256: 0df0371a4e099002eb366fe54feb57ad4ec0bf7ce344e733b4f8f5edcfd027d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing or malware delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=como+hacer+un+presupuesto+maestro+en+excel PDF link annotation
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/bosedupavilazafuluza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a37edcb75be---81632081211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d6c6995d2b---35559651066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3pni0n0hlefgeh0efl8tuo4mc0/zorifuxodipojiramofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b58cca3580---43960919784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc7c5b3b319---naramegiluxojogevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f682ea0b6---73414946794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160715afdd9a87---5321849439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079325a2f762---59205087986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/zaredewidebojofexav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acd38418a77---votuxadig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalboncostruzioni.it/userfiles/files/dikunerozomukeneguvesaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oducrmgnqq0jrvir616monfl28/24830162833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seanmore.com/userData/board/file/87050315114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833625bff8a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb3288ff6966a4e72e7a0d9a28785c92/dijubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8aa52f18db3d8535124090bfba945fc7/58052822294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d318.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD318 5148 bytes
SHA-256: 5537ed24057e89bc40548b8675d68d1b95f1e9f3de809511c2f6d65c282fb458
font_01_sfnt_off0000e461.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE461 3084 bytes
SHA-256: 020c1e1fe9239067ef91a4ef9d974a6484bbd33ae8114d628c541db462d77e29
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0EC 11176 bytes
SHA-256: 8b91966ff6c221373035cf9762ec37aece43e653bb58f0a4d7d39993f7ceb455
font_03_sfnt_off00011595.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11595 16760 bytes
SHA-256: 28afb3ddd5550968b729020d056de51447a9e93062d593ea3e1058b0349de3a0