Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e077cc751845862…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-06-29 05:22:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: bb6e55aa8b9b879dd536e63ce7b1aa94 SHA-1: 86c84a35a1b9adab729f05d98842d364c19df194 SHA-256: 0e077cc75184586259510980d4e46b1a1b2c24c20a73e7073807554446808e67
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple distinct hosts, some of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://stringquartet.biz/web/images/fck/file/24587251415.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/lisuzisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.cz/data/cms/file/16177745364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p92c08lov637amj98lsfk2chq5/jixiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/xivibotom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/20216102214431437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipublicity.cz/data/file/lifalipefufagitod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084fd2c72d60---89330995007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theleadershipworks.com/PO2/UPFILE/userfiles/files/denurokevor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/703b66c1382ba8a01bf313e748c2d3f0/55503448603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccforum.kr/uploads/file/1624420355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuga-hotel.com/CKEdit/upload/files/7872826958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a7e48f091c---11174133385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160854bee4a33e---4636358878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1qot1g7tqpipe8lthp44pvav24/59934070810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b0f04d050e---49373831488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mfs250prere0frt9h5uskpj075/luvopal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b53a47b54c3---90921058649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/28412105199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985c820beda---56041262303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b46ab5a78fd---lerajuwotakinefakozuvitaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=three+musketeers+jeremy+ironsPDF 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_off0000f49a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF49A 17540 bytes
SHA-256: 77a75565fe050cc661aff14f07f193400aa890437a5d24cec23d4136871a53cb
font_01_sfnt_off000121c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121C0 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 73cdac4b3d149d97fda2a6cc36971b5440b0be8d7e39af71b5d42aa2bf1bfce2
font_02_sfnt_off000139b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1