Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0df65942cc92fe96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-08-23 23:23:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 691d55dd9ab72b6e30af24721bd63361 SHA-1: 43fadc3bc5d4fa27635a168e4b03ea4508254e6a SHA-256: 0df65942cc92fe96179823d6c6bf94b92a0e3b91974e5c774d712435dd4bf93d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or appear to be disposable. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware. The document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings clearly point to a link farm attack pattern.

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 http://crm333.com/documentos/file/lovupitunemopasavedesik.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://acril.ru/ufiles/files/bapesibotodix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontivo.ro/userfiles/file/xepililojizofojupibisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608befd37a5ca---xopodokuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d5c0528e18d8cba963c11721b9765ce/93814545920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhatngudongkinh.com/upload/ckupload/files/52946292585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609762b79878f---wubekukosivunawupesilifid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e620c11a27869d36120457ca8696911/49613277670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eraldocomo.it/userfiles/files/venulivilavasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/2021526652204785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forglass.sk/userfiles/file/jetejezelulekaxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slp61.com/clients/e/e2/e296dcecfd7d10ffef0cc83fef253c72/File/4921446185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9d94693fe6ef2a067202f27bfd8a6be/fuxekadozepajatajega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myesen.life/userfiles/file/safedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovodatar.hu/userfiles/file/83825603725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784ef60c36a---91755596499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09e9l9uug7osth7o97djeu3t9k/lipagefubipatotogefab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btcauction.vn/hinhanh/file/27714793866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a289e83e8---32323254024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ad749c1d63857eea10c30eaa09f41e4/sutibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gbjngeomab425fs0niqp0i2ia3/jabozixip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caraudioshop.ro/mm/file/bikuduladawotawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bb601339af34f4f43ade6ef8a931597/vogunokibijuramubagale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=textbook+science+form+1PDF 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_off0000e595.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE595 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 2ac35f5c2a070761199f832c49de9204997c75c0ee2f64d349472ceca7553fdb
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE03 16972 bytes
SHA-256: dee2c2f345a134f8b2a26712f02b0aeb1e7e5f97bae9ff5b0339bc88b2fcbc96
font_02_sfnt_off00012a5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A5C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1