Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0fa3b40ffb533d31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-06-06 14:18:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 51d85ba5bc4f20afda1effe44d759e51 SHA-1: 0a891feb275862de35f619165c352a5cd3f8f484 SHA-256: 0fa3b40ffb533d316a7d404bde4d3de46d4558fa512972707215821b7befa903
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm or distribution point for malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to 'hess's law problems'. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+work+hess%2527s+law+problems PDF link annotation
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oh7vrhvqt7jlkf9umt4eds2ph4/puwijepejosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caf9ef883e7c7f68bdb5051f56624d76/rapelibuvototazuloni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea65492ca0---faxuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shqinze.net/admin/upimg/file/%5C/82226414428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a017bce5028---6219604769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859e6fd0f6e---62224697008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085434ef405a---vuvido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/46586269229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b09dvfj2ublp06fhcvp6t1v3d2/27219057825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/39444561378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87sgm655nqodh2hnvde02rnr0i/levobekedijezibole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessium.fr/userfiles/file/34224000668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ff3760b7bb---rovumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c31gbkkhvnkbj47ldiem4ukhae/14646609370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g5p3c51iktslakpkjspt46ghh9/zabadadunumofekosogajuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vbd293b3p3lk91550kjqpbkn5e/bamuwenewepuwogateb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e9b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9B8 5348 bytes
SHA-256: e734add1275794732617188acf8c2f442b99eaf1f3cb3735873c85feba132981
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBCA 11624 bytes
SHA-256: 7c680f656c809b61f1fd075c218d791da96a9dd97f383f7f7295bf5eb0e1dc39