Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e0277d0a62eab3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-07-07 08:06:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 02d08a14c53155b9ef9a30012edff5ae SHA-1: 1b91370718615cc3fdc7da2cdf2b878a5093f28b SHA-256: 0e0277d0a62eab3ac3376a52c71a46e699878cdc59d96903475a1ed970af8197
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, many of which host further PDF files. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608447e35dce6---10001312952.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yuhenganquan.com/userfiles/file/20210603101212_1796111362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonafideonline.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd89f36b27419110cdf79bfe6cf5b958/78408707641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5ee921e6d---40201785283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608464d0ccdeb---falefurit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1b2f93c26f6a01deb5a8b980cfa96c0/86961478067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/907c2719f8a561cbf35fdddaec261925/nuvedili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.com/images/userfiles/file/74921080376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soles2walk.cz/data/file/69607087817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848902b8927---71002752678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e08c730c7e82d0726177d1870a6ab2f/tapolonuzediw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab64dddf75f---2447683758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210619171300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e365161b98843b7b140e565f246971c7/batibeluxibotobuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1abf4b8274782db4a9ef39fb396a806b/120821523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160707d6091116---mebegoxovadoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baptistfriends.org/media/53244932279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c3ae798310---2853601242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://houstoncoinshow.org/FCKeditor/file/59264944454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzjksj.com/images/upload/File/paxidov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084ca6c451d2---zilubonurijirami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a243f1c5186---93212633487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wienbildarchiv.com/upload_files/files/timiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mnq6vd4439inv0urenoa2fk9ts/3952985100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=porter+6+forces+templatePDF link annotation
    • http://irodori.kir.jp/files/file/85567721293.pdfIn 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://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_off0000fc3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC3A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011451.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11451 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 5671ada2003d7daf39cdaeded9443d181c6d259bbd39a698a3cb8fca02d22ff6
font_02_sfnt_off00012cae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CAE 17280 bytes
SHA-256: 790f0914f04a3ee55890592bfee97143f09b6636517612dfb710418fe8b99176