Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f9eb2268b0250bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-09-28 10:57:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 5dc176275e3eb5c98acd09c5cf0a6440 SHA-1: 4e7993bbae03231d6886ef1422a18c95c777e5de SHA-256: 0f9eb2268b0250bb20e7c6c25f5934c641e289fb48afa05d629d1e2c5bb04c07
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The document's structure and numerous outbound links suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=home+movie+torrent PDF link annotation
    • https://dbhattacharjee.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70713571577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariautonoleggiomarsala.it/userfiles/files/dewuliwafov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://berettyotv.hu/userfiles/files/70774129332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.texaco.bargiel.com.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xeporumazekamobuxixos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raguvosbaldai.manovonia.lt/images/files/73754874592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d2aa76ebf8801161bdfd1a4a9061dbc/jujegitegipawok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tootooair.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210906_4C3A1A71A924B5BF.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161494b5f82ef0---93793233100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pezenasenchantee.fr/userfiles/file/gijezaxonodoxagevafuxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmlukanich.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wuwazumuxedoxofemozenes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungklimamodelleri.com/upload/ckfinder/files/11712250291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cribpointonline.org/cribpointonline/userimages/file/bunogivigowafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/jumonulerasage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aias.pnu.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/poxejuzugetorenijiloli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f53921db1f540c2a3e3817e1d84be2d/1458728458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diepdoanhmetals.com/media/ftp/file/80645804546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613be9f5bc0b5---fanozofojarefuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210927041550198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midospa.com/upload/files/viwasesaxudinabanurimovut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://byecook.com/ckupload/files/firilafelij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polletnv.be/uploads/files/kuwopukidaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-recycling.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/44717004569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolegalezullo.eu/userfiles/files/dexexemepowufofuzupema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liderzy.natura2000.pl/imgturysta/files/67652401557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariabilancino.it/userfiles/files/99594163659.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_off0000b0b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0B2 15076 bytes
SHA-256: 37b38624bde40934ecf9fae5417c8c58663f693fbac06312a08d898c908b5e56
font_01_sfnt_off0000d725.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD725 9948 bytes
SHA-256: 1523bf5dab165dd9105580b150304db9e3f301d97f9f0e63c913cc4e439d3d73
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED11 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1