Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f57736f31e8ad87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-08-25 23:35:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ec1546d8647e6832a75df95442b655c4 SHA-1: 37840814b26b6a9ee200e5a1d719508351ca82c6 SHA-256: 0f57736f31e8ad8767a8547451d699ec8d18cf3649e835b96d4449b94e202981
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous unknown URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely spearphishing attachment used to redirect victims to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://noospc.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/mogafefesinepuxubobet.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f501cd786a8a2bd3db9aa1ab7ce520a2/gipelimirimofepil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almondzwealth.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/35498449525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1bd08952a5---sulug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poolpoint.be/uploads/file/93379346142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sacc-la-chaux-de-fonds.ch/fichiers/file/90832069477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/32188788926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/975420bfc49c24fe6b4b4759de26f631/81422162014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/16819436685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coebmsf.com/userfiles/file/92348464601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ck-kutnahora.cz/gais/image/file/vexesajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d18c29e178---sibaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f6c275b947a---gizupedebikuzetidebuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--sanitrprofi-p8a.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/xajiwawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityhelps.org/clients/6/61/61afa7a028a8e04f14432b0fece6f2b0/File/buwabejadefovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipsgroupjjn.org/userfiles/file/xedosoxumag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5a8db1765ea6bfe3ad9b890812d3eac/66301525742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607340c5cbd87---92564197452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-5/file/zevewosopokuwuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://semihkerpiccilervesupersound.com/upload/file/50321006910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.teaterskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74457242434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607588a4e2246---10404968776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moolans.com/uploads/files/mirowugekepinidugiwisiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2df13a81c9e5d46704bd75aaf4f98287/61373829304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc1e4221e70---69903833222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b38e9c7d8c2---6729829724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anaminfo.com/attachfile/file/13447772044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=watch+at+world%27s+end+online+freePDF 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_off0000d4d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4D5 17272 bytes
SHA-256: adcc78b8af99430223074149e3b8c60352579215011723d193af0cf16e6630ba
font_01_sfnt_off000101bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101BB 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 9275791a15cd36ee3a6050d7be68522bb1d416f13b498e8507cfc03176ac7512
font_02_sfnt_off00011a52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A52 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1