Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ea68f5a5c5c7e35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 22:52:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d9e10be9a5e057a58ebe20e1840b1939 SHA-1: e4d6c6df18470d6eb195ab76ac71ccf9f35a973d SHA-256: 0ea68f5a5c5c7e3510662f641988bc373e4c88f8c1f078816ab45bf645f032c3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of these links and the detection signatures point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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 http://gostinica-domodedovo.ru/files/metototivopemu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/80279827637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmusicdesign.nluserfiles/file/15715351549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilexgold.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/ritesisix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vckphn82k5o4f0cv1442d9qo03/61112938104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalcenterhotels.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/89983212917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c419f0436290a8d35c44cfdc357710a/rovabavofenutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/360ae84286be283bd524bde7ce2f9405/fupijotogaderemodikomud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maharajganjtimes.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/rabafakurokoganepelug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgpharma.in/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/liputadalorek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i297j262jt7pp6on38bj94l293/zotujasupexixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c076b4b96b3---96683971089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebiocell.com/uploadfile/file///2021081714503334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/matofozomavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snqrsl.quebec/upload/editor/file/xofejobufiwutux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidlbrooks.com/clients/868292/File/jisepumutixamuzigegapono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhakhoaanphuoc.vn/uploads/files/birozoropanadajigunorogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbu.vn/Images_upload/files/49292262335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coquicart.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/43934897827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sport-jicin.cz/dokumenty/42093155839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7336bc952fd175b1d7ca99d77582ea7/lagoziniseximaxamowuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5e97c18a0e---53133279005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/lifulenidatovuwiroxikum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodfortune.hk/UpLoadFile/file///wivowolatojagurinomab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160978d1b142a8---lugesededivilarapab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acryl-bg.com/userfiles/file/65207605804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=vertigo+postural+paroxistico+benigno+pdfPDF 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_off0000d75c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD75C 11108 bytes
SHA-256: c2640f1f517483da6a3f29c97b1c1c512590d5ffdf872a05fe243c703cac64f5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0FE 16876 bytes
SHA-256: b60736d521ccfd5ed994ded8754c5e81bdc5c1a1a5c1390ed09a61a984becca0
font_02_sfnt_off00011c2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C2F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1