Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f165d687dc24bfc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2021-09-28 06:41:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 10e7d1569b422e2eaa43aefc03e12467 SHA-1: 00342bfdd333bed172e9caffa81d50577a4c928e SHA-256: 0f165d687dc24bfcf120396c7c32cbd2740f01825a3fe7a668fe05db8753d86d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The primary function appears to be acting as a link farm to distribute traffic to potentially malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://olsztyntransportmedyczny.pl/userfiles/file/pumodaratawowumusorojij.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://baby-daycare.com/uploads/files/202109110259364642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munsusa.org/userfiles/file/20210926001558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudicobank.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79214401597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juhaszautovill.hu/userfiles/file/toruzolitutab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilalyapidekorasyon.com/userfiles/file/wivibumelewoxovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felixtrail.com/imagini_ws/tudufujurojumesimivodus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fusiongrup.ro/userfiles/file/zamavinisat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easternhoteljeju.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210917_F6F45070F642723F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vakantie-noordlimburg.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/radakenelumufif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bankerz.in/qpic/files/sepefojananipidiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casabresciani.it/uploads/file/53785032332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://another-partner.morefriendship.com/upload/files/96523786722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26d9206cce25a6e817afa90320067033/pujiwexexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ymy-tea.tw/upload/files/83464086019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d27788d238---noxijoxodilajoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roberlo.cz/www/files/file/namuxumirela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ls-machinery.com/uploadpic/files/202109121951102931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vonschickenfremont.com/uploads/files/nixikifenike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adci.vn/data/upload/file/55403963477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokemom2.com/uploads/files/9194508016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atasuorganiktarim.com/upload/ckfinder/files/siwazokadifowezufozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131b7594e5bc---femoterorezuvusawubalaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=newspaper+report+writing+format+for+studentsPDF 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_off0000b26a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB26A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA81 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 1472b4157eb36806a5de5ee50b9c227d26b2728cad26f3b7d702849221bbb5ba
font_02_sfnt_off0000e3cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3CC 14276 bytes
SHA-256: 0b858849ac624bab494b1b9d61b62e10ad1db6e1bbd5fd6f34ead520ccac78d3