Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f06da648de6794a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-07-05 12:43:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 13d4a6aa5a037a0a7f84bd0b32be146a SHA-1: 5c25bb8d7a68ccfb6b53ec9e08e1016c1b701d67 SHA-256: 0f06da648de6794a5772df41bd4109904d5f9aa0075d8c40b887af9fa14f6a7f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous distinct hosts, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/190bcee8a80dce790fb196b199d5807a/kifakomizikiso.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bcaca8dcd22321b8b035c65bd2ec705/63677163419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6c95b8912e338f38b36899dbfbea250/pojowilulolivel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galeriejacqueselbaz.com/userfiles/file/18690801682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/peo0nqs5ilce2uanit9v16sj82/waforisemupiram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purevdavaa.mn/uploads/ckfinder/files/vujulevujipaserunezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607616a482e83---62716821369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n2nlah.org/UserFiles/file/xusadowoganazulik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aadq3ae7aa5k.xn--p1ai/upload/file/34218464285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f91674091---46613287346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0mtc2itob3rv0di946frnml7h3/tojiregozur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce25a1d273a6d8790df68642f275063c/20177818998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafordexstudents.com/clients/0/05/05b3dbe7dd9dc6f92b523d2b721f2ffd/File/14364614621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a572a4cd1ef---tafoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igigeothermal.jp/userfiles/file/tevujejuzid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humboldthighclassof79.com/clients/1/19/19f040aad945c40a0acbd79abd3dc6cb/File/84086381592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095cbf8e67ea---nubadevin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shayangroup.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c5733d131bc5b2c2740c75d5635abe4/7535039253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ffc49296d---2090556692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc23b28c16d817b6a3a0be3b0595fa83/42964535946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestpokeya.com/uploads/files/mupewelulata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c93941b14f---pipove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fpfiac50epqps5e2ani7646724/30189035039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f6035abb36f8b31105e7d054a893bfa/27326290979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=homeowners+in+forbearancePDF 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_off0000ef48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF48 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 7f9dea9286708a7e759673f8eb5149bc1df512cb2a20b1ada6123d1294e6d80e
font_01_sfnt_off0001076e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1076E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F80 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 31fca466d0fdeedb232739776fd5961cf4ea14a08f6abdc8a27cecb086f7501b