Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ed9337f25a02572…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 00:55:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f486b4645defb3bca1cbd343fb7c3611 SHA-1: 71fd5cf6e9a2fa44bbfd7a7f72ca31cc2c46b093 SHA-256: 0ed9337f25a02572a2efbddbb282b845bca4166ba36286aa69e8b0f5c5a6bb9d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farms indicate a likely spearphishing attachment vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://ayurveda-shiatsu-nice.com/upload/files/40143772904.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4rmj0oukd4uhs1eefl6qvc7k44/teligonuwofefexumuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf9127c0ee9---lateragubinofibanozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinik.ru/userfiles/file/20444080675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dohertylaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/mimebogul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf4c253ea7eb676a6f7c61d61472d878/24262575811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://summit-christian-academy.org/scauserfiles/files/12298059422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984bef399b5---71488580834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3bd87d0524---91488522062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://granitemountainranch.net/userimages/68602353719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paperland.bg/uploads/file/noxuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c01d8e35c---93381673426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pi73iqnu4h91kvktiga1cnt8j5/tejevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987d7be1308---telegukavexupenikoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://refah4ter.info/basefile/hotelrefah4terir/files/18094374950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a923724df7c---790481526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://circolodelpistone.ch/userfiles/file/6499479380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db494cb3e26442b9ceadc1c7f056ac5d/88608750846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29788aa01a3a1f397931bc4ad4175b5d/vitapagufiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrmhandling.nl/upload/file/dojusubotok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a40619d605---teraselosolejune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c96d337098a9301ad5d853406830132/xomabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=steenbarger+psychology+of+trading+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5968d684d3c858c215bd6b9a8344be12/81628594453.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_off0000f3c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3C4 11228 bytes
SHA-256: 32c19cece7d0bacd2fd33ae6830903023b84895dc4ec9f8234c937fba929502e
font_01_sfnt_off00010d9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D9C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000125ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125AE 17344 bytes
SHA-256: 22b26e76695e4ad31994fd05e4c42f250008b5eaba502583b19067dca4968087