Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f04dd993839a159…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 10:34:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ae6515f99a623a0788e6fb353da84760 SHA-1: dbb2a9e4d7ddd2cb6ab28f9d4ab89582d985f8da SHA-256: 0f04dd993839a159f2e1672fddaeb0147f984b6319bc69a769c858a666e88ffb
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of embedded URLs and link farms on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9761

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bcba55578b---77395363949.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zhizhencn.com/filespath/files/20210910065740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ximangsongthao.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/sunolotejaganilijofuwexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://potentialdesign.cn/userfiles/file/1631246183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soc-in.com/data/media/files/vibalunemamosojekoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuaspa.com/upload/images-content/files/jevaparape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duancanhotot.com/upload/files/69685105948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://komunalno.vrgorac.hr/files/29681969639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greece-ex.com/images/blog/file/gapanomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalcareerclub.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/gumudowubesepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamap.in/ci/userfiles/files/tuxevubixadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/681sb7nua5333bjj5u0o62hlv1/kigiterivujimepaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fbfda366a7---86252840605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161320decadd2c---43805075169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktogel.com/contents/files/wokafobebol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charming-dc.com/uploads/files/202109112137383731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rapn.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23194367090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kiofruits.com/admin/uploads/files/gozevewomaposo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lingeriedediva.com/UploadFile/file/2021090716232773499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxiluzern.ch/khurasan/userfiles/files/53512919708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/478e5uva8gufdkaqk47golevp6/lagudizuvoxelodimamet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eshop-kocicinadeje.cz/files/file/vapejiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613968daf3ae6---20731444921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614198d952394---girepelusosuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cachnhietcacham.vn/Images_upload/files/23548915822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dataprint.ie/uploads/file/fuxomal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konyaalotaksi.com/userfiles/file/1968916919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=12th+bio+zoology+tamil+medium+bookPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e3f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3F2 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 87579b2f3534605690b13f8f795a3fdd12ad22677073ffab29704e99b130e32c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD12 24932 bytes
SHA-256: da302d53027843f6621768ceab04570239e0c470db694e1c472e4393b9dc2bc2
font_02_sfnt_off00013b3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B3E 16256 bytes
SHA-256: 7d55a662ee7c42176237d137f5fe27a5549b2d25c6a731579ac99721dc90f887
font_03_sfnt_off00015147.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15147 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1