Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f41cb1cb510e5b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 19:06:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: fc1164554201346975beea8f7fca9d13 SHA-1: 5cd1805836bcc8eff58aa0a87ca75e93eb1d38ba SHA-256: 0f41cb1cb510e5b81e7e1446a1ed9d46e246a4d055b5bfa5eabf8532da6f453f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7301

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=phoenix+science+book+grade+10+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.autoservis-hubatka.cz/admin/upload/ww/file/tugujid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adurucui.com/ckfinder/files/3057716886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedical.com/uploads/file/fizademodopesil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chulintemple.house-well.com/CKEdit/upload/files/jixubozuxokakamenadime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securityguardsupply.com/php/uploads/file/gofopidisutonan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aibasavar.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7673120335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://af.ssla.ru/images/fornews/files/vesenikilumemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plentis.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ditanawamatawamewosegow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7761788564e5245a16665116d9f448f/norop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7e7c6df73---wotafixufam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hirurgija.me//files/77204341657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chono.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/75113778626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ktcz.eu/files/files/68331591086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://df-foundry.net/d/files/7840288174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btegypt.com/file/70554766667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuadepthanglong.com/images/ckeditor/files/48748227311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viettincapital.vn/upload/files/juwafunilibozeputon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krukaiart.com/userfiles/files/vadonapetuwib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fecf56a605ec2b16632e6bcdcf936f37/53504730704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/suted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consoles-a-gagner.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/4086418487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f00dee83d4---wosopivalujajovixewuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac5408df405---73122923005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricarda-allegra.de/userfiles/file/95592284286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnhaduong.com/images/uploads/files/11079385949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e833.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE833 11264 bytes
SHA-256: cecbe693009989ff447a27fff8dd7de34a041e35fc091f6efe0cc23c089a57a3
font_01_sfnt_off00010235.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10235 19056 bytes
SHA-256: 99100781664d171b9424f66f64938449eb2fec512e3386b96606553c0fc57a65