Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0fa05cb2f917b6a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-07-02 07:26:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e3f0589025e03b4587e3751be1f83c46 SHA-1: 47c6ad6b5036246b471063d7ce5021c37dc362f0 SHA-256: 0fa05cb2f917b6a29a661b76d630f0e704f49a03063a39d4c212006bfeaf25d6
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 numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to lure users to potentially harmful sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=baked+eating+apples PDF link annotation
    • http://soepcentrale-dekeyser.be/userfiles/file/11980271480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobydick-band.de/fckdata/file/soxofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3fbb47920bc1764a8aacb45149eb474/1306285057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca9b43b650---1837984063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4cb58a278---70830324431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawwabatrizq.com/userfiles/file/57756200746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidhichand.org/sahodyatarntaran/userfiles/file/sesukimonojozos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092a4f79e093---75965905597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9bbb445b09fa9e3f9272a526e6c3e0e/47198247904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05437fb49857247de4423e890143b86b/zosabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160793996da177---58192620964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efcuho1mls4q222ca5h3lun7v9/wemifosikonurefakobalasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2b208f406f---wosatizasaxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47fcf40bdad631ca93d5251ef39651a0/32944662280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degeninhotel.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tegilavolizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merrygoldholidays.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pufutumijezumexunaxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wojno-stal.pl/pliki/file/ladarafafinozabogivekevab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fafe4c50f7ab85e20f1456a4dc375694/fafulitewitixanibigowodaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/wodiruzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c1068ee7a---litovamisijemalofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609862cfe12de---kusasare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075577ada8dd---11072952311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47d6cbd4a89e72893e7f3e80a11689d4/25893542958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-clean.com/user_img/files/soketopurir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/vefawixej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b7441d3d01---gibezifedalit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c542b7099---32251749444.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_off0000fba6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBA6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000113b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113B8 17728 bytes
SHA-256: 75279c0018b57f8973d0eee87f8d70db2179702472745ae84aa1d66051b3860a
font_02_sfnt_off0001422a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1422A 10492 bytes
SHA-256: f607ecb236641eedda25e6e018d4fb3728c60dd5f7aba335a6aed0d79e67be1b