Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f3a2eb387dda029…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 01:54:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d1207ec6dcafd8692ef679036a61e76c SHA-1: 88f653faa9a58e72d186c38968bdfa407f74bd80 SHA-256: 0f3a2eb387dda029d50c2d5cd45fdc4a4bd9bb477359c8127f3d7a14d14a310b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of UTM parameters further support the link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe3d773e5f---6903464132.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.monts.sk/upload_images/file/58468542130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c7168acddfec4a812befc7f011c3205/93536855659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educhina.mn/editor/files/jajiminivovafujixuwiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/24489214504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160889839285d2---mexekuwaravirese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5811f9bc9b81a4997b71f158fac59fbf/paguwunikevibetozugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfd37611c3da447338e931b60872f493/50520219806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratsimae.ee/media/contents/file/reveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084ca3ddab4f---tegejodubes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7badd74eaf19297d633ef1924c4563ed/mewuxizomaseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bc0b6bbe61053e9561891c71440ea6c/34565199117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b242149335---sivomakikifikovomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-23/20210523102859120797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbufestival.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/zefafirokurokijavejinez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db12353410---luwegelukatomozoxuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://botorka.ro/userfiles/file/71825401925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vodnik48.ru/content/file/pesekoxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c30bf991ed---51035461950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160923f65a5e35---42302114750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9cdc6a0e9e---49186892697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ra0onsjdi9aihhconps1i2juhi/6800531029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crmrealty360degree.in/userfiles/file/feludu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083d07c35db1---jowefidedaditiwuzuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=double+to+int+conversion+in+javaPDF 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_off0000f4b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4B4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010ccb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CCB 10660 bytes
SHA-256: b404d014b0d19721a37a6ead47866d56aff264eb93d2f757865e3ccad9720c4f
font_02_sfnt_off00012553.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12553 17432 bytes
SHA-256: 8afb4dc2b52714c12526b387dda72a979bc0bde939712c8b5b0d99ca83afacda