Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0fa13ac177477900…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.7 KB Created: 2021-07-02 16:17:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f259b8b3900cbf23de3fa4ac30cb38f7 SHA-1: 8c7a57d46fd70f113235065d452aa42261afdd68 SHA-256: 0fa13ac177477900a808e0ab126a8ac95421a73b9ca33a26f169b73696722431
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, hosting numerous PDFs on compromised CMS upload directories, indicating an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

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://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5p8jv0e0lqoiul5j8eebooaih5/gimuzisuwodinasesodubiji.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gourmethousemacau.com/UploadFilesfile///zurijomujarax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71bf5c187817cbec8f6202c31a8f8124/2716159027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608451514d322---pitudopasolep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7nrhtqk660697pkrnchcub6pot/xuzevipupodizujokev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1da61dd77cc429b800205f91c010bc68/boputa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b2a456d747---29496589486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748b019e88e---xarixoxefazejupaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80de4fe510cf881a4c414148a2ee29de/30275220161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lasanisports.com/files/wokafokumawomipad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d85b332fb9---98500388037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://servmed.net/userfiles/file/43511818263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--aknmedcal-wpbe.com/uploads/file/71315238439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079fd836d301---56559944712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokstar.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/kowilowubuxavoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc36e1b437---padalapapakixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160901b95d333b---jozupiwegazusegami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/602f8f7fe6960bd702e096d17a645897/vixafigozavatuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globaltruthmediagroup.com/clients/a/aa/aa8380eac451876ae6ab993bf3a720d6/File/tofopovugifexefibanerikaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chi-kara.net/userfiles/file/95986451516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d83a6ad57d8700e93504b6f238c03341/55535533083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06e2155ca95f0afe59ecd8b84e46f33f/fojilesogukelusajawovot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=clash+of+clans+best+th13+basePDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac30085d059---85092830732.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_off0001385b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1385B 17176 bytes
SHA-256: c8ae74124d7d3806872fc4c1e1485ce48f4b41eafef276c537a34db550e9b0be
font_01_sfnt_off00016527.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16527 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00017d3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17D3E 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 1f8b47d417e5ec13e4b5f77cb5ed957168d1cdd692a93027c4cf389073c6dacc