Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f0e7a6849bcf86a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.3 KB Created: 2021-07-18 16:20:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 17a74e3354f8249f656abef25991049b SHA-1: 8884a74fd716ebbbd5daa007e5528248582eccc7 SHA-256: 0f0e7a6849bcf86a6f35519ef2956ca98f62fdace8e5d6e79684e0f21b7f71a2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, a common tactic for hosting malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content hosted on these compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8oe1752umosmd6i9e6bf4n72de/33249237512.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7ea1043fe67c6db706e8608392ae46f/kogodaxaditatakob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/onf0veoe5mu19uov1nbvvv3htc/11196370937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a33a4894088---zegeruluzipube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gd-weimi.com/upfolder/e/files/20210615154309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alate.org/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/tisuvev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608062b06f2c3---gugogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nvsrolko.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/remewubotevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6mr2n8p7bqkidmcahdlkskr076/pafumuxuvizukiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090738b92daf---49382344294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruresept.ru/files/file/sijuzomevakopelirox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n4bsu2685jaaa9bluid9saghhr/99423799276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adb8ba82596---5064018940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ca81adcf8---70042393764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogarestudio.com/userfiles/file/fiwuketebemarilaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.clc-engineering.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/fodajesadubobanitogetove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hataylezzeti.com/resimler/files/jokalugumebuvepudup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c6d8218aaf---gedijabusisemefife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/20217412701742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a446416de2---23332081135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=if+a+and+b+are+mutually+exclusive+thenPDF 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_off000120b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120B3 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 4fef3987dc509807d371d4730e2159b8ae1e529c193a94b5f84bf02638b6d741
font_01_sfnt_off00013a63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A63 17708 bytes
SHA-256: 45f751997a7935480afa22a57449e7f05914c911a22a3d173018068217fbb372
font_02_sfnt_off000168f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x168F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1