Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f5ba93487bf1ac6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-07-14 03:11:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: ceed27cb9252a8e3b1cca0c80e971657 SHA-1: 9fa92401254637e102963884a53e36e296ee93ee SHA-256: 0f5ba93487bf1ac6786faed1ac0dc72dd33dc99db4dd48f8d54ff7c9f32528fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=britney+spears+mp3 PDF link annotation
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b370d680f1---29418646601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtsport.com/pliki/kogefiralaselaxivexazik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/pupuwika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a05761061d80d3b403fb69d225b1bdcc/11059412959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samyenngochoang.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s33qejvm01d60qh9c3fj3kcm38/gukizox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratsimae.ee/media/contents/file/zopigokagenos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlumacz-lipno.pl/pdrzewiecki/files/26155621391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qqaqr6ri4j7en293a4lnjlvcqu/17925646134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a8d2bca65964bf2331758636a7367ef/2025916836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bednidhitraders.com/userfiles/file/42817248749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74f9fed62060d775532194d1281c8179/8211324039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://falconshipping-uae.com/userfiles/files/juwopukawedatofawunam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocoils.com/img/file/33046543496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5fad3a7652---42278170153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089374cc18e3---38048451184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bscsaoner.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/parikukekomuzumil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-clean.com/user_img/files/60064732100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4d4131fb8---1926784874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df1a5cfe511aef9f169f48350fd539da/xizoxazazuwaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.com/img/upload/file/sutiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea1528beccb04a3a19ba64ea5e77677d/84812727830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077af5c9b86c---14387922721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d522e2d03c5c972e8ae8ded45c0d2497/73369882634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/piwib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68db3db7f02092b08f510d725ba6bd86/36772860729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ca9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA9C 10588 bytes
SHA-256: c45c109f992306044a1a4509b4ee2a907042487e4bb1e2e5f5bc3bc0399c2d91
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2D9 19124 bytes
SHA-256: dee963d5c2699ff64dfa646c39abd12593f482df9b44800bcb07d28fd401a2cc
font_02_sfnt_off00011621.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11621 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1