Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f5ed3ca4155b239…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-08-12 13:09:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 4b58e4fa5e8db9dfba524036fef55bfe SHA-1: b43725a57f2c7a41d6d3c991ef8ea2a298057a58 SHA-256: 0f5ed3ca4155b2398298acc06dbae16e3eced898c33eb811d0767a7f778e3034
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malware or visiting phishing pages. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of disposable hosting reinforce its role as a distribution mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://partner-support.net/user_data/userfiles/files/13249801646.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://toskov-yordanov.com/userfiles/file/59212799053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xigmatek.com/upload/files/benejexefojerawiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cba1771456---73056838602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608620fda2186---73934780960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2ab4bab1c2---nuzoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac60ea6ccfe6aff70974a0d5cefc4964/13285567595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dba07f0bce9941c7b3b91300e88f954/31229067596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abeb410d0e7---bivujesevaburokiladil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0035214398---51547294732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatngungoisaoxanh.com/upload/files/46411077838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sozopolihills.com/userfiles/file/59956261903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinwoosmc.com/userfiles/file/wafupan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810b3a9a14f---mosuxokexarufotupuzuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiks.info/public/file/93137556017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4770e91d106f04b113ba2fe496facdb5/jiritikoxevupopibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8df03c4a59---82719165157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lev-steklo.ru/userfiles/file/26655969522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaelen.it/userfiles/files/kixosubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/635e3661adba59128e1531f86dcfd744/33836860685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taichielite.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87193603526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanitaerprofi.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/52507334058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adb06b2c404---14255969067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhasachconggiao.com/luutru/files/28109253236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=letra+de+cancion+de+villancico+ven+a+cantarPDF 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_off0000d5ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5EE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE00 16808 bytes
SHA-256: 51b5081525e7048f105037f95367025e9fad74b8ad4273ea35db34658b9c624c
font_02_sfnt_off00011882.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11882 10220 bytes
SHA-256: d074fa46a2c49c5952ef53a5232f38a02fcf38d0ced0cabacfc88a8a361fcbdc