Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ea929b2c39f323d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-06-29 10:10:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 80bd6f4c4d5c13ad9eb73eb27bae6f0e SHA-1: 4e0cd54d55c5357b7f4a6674982085f512dd0203 SHA-256: 0ea929b2c39f323d9a79d2e5a2d4fed68d633cdac774a7603516e54d2bc750ed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan by ClamAV. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links and the overall detection indicate an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eff0750834---gapimigubaxeriwonagego.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27add8a1ab8b2dbe7a2d79b2c135c867/15508596532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9129deb6e9---lazigewexamoduwatopusabit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bca262e79b---nenofonovobesuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc-lampang.com/user_img/files/vamevuvazilalib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjhrz.com/images/upload/File/gavomivixafel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riggi.ru/userfiles/file/bexomefegubofumurofizidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://111-orte.de/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/36159464330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcq9igpun76m6ev306tjimp4i1/somaguxurupubegupovitero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b279e98881e---93625982132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9c9cb7c42c---vegonovuzixigerokopuxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbtech.kr/upfile/files/viredasobetix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c143fd4e82---suwedazovamivigevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://examonline.org/examonline/userfiles/file/31443506181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfh-consulting.com/userfiles/file/92363389983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.net/userfiles/file/4190890951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c51261c4850---53591500137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netshopnepal.com/userfiles/file/82477341229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0767781a4bf66ace24e61be0545c09f2/69890289316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sehersirin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4b16f0e2b---97275565296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160878160031eb---40508857978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b085f04afb4---8150818015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=oral+roberts+preachingPDF 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_off000100d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100D6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000118ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118ED 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 6f19caac906511f5fc1d3346e4dc4c8a00630023e85bd3270a3b11c4fb7eaa1a
font_02_sfnt_off000131a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131A2 17524 bytes
SHA-256: 098d14d1d2885abf1fb09e3296853d50134308132db2899b47ac04b25396d978