Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0fa908fe389a4bfb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-07-10 03:52:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d12802bdf07961263a4e5b6531a3d8a8 SHA-1: 73354c22b7803242e416aa92f34086947236e1cb SHA-256: 0fa908fe389a4bfbd75b0721cde6b50d07d16fcbf378720ac49a3aa0e2a2cc7c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, presenting numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting domains, likely to distribute further malicious content or phish for credentials. The PDF structure and embedded links are consistent with a phishing or malware delivery campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=an+everyday+occurrence
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/miduxovulorirezep.pdf
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fd5506fa6449ed2bb29881c6662b2ad/73500742637.pdf
    • https://hkbca.org/UploadFiles/file/20210702094758155.pdf
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7a3c61c7b766daa697d47bb872aa3fe/55409142728.pdf
    • https://sunwayhk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sopajuvuxe.pdf
    • https://dolcezzecaffe.it/file/7797263161.pdf
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160771dfb6914a---judixiviwofokik.pdf
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ba9e0e443---68465528710.pdf
    • http://yuhenganquan.com/userfiles/file/20210624103057_1007008559.pdf
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e8c737e22cd56992fc215d03450d792/10354668854.pdf
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vjktlnms0puemcmkg2e4u81203/zavivobat.pdf
    • http://businessvaluationapp.com//fck_files/file/tevekikavubenebejufusib.pdf
    • http://xiaohecollege.com/d/files/12254943367.pdf
    • http://svazekobciorlice.cz/userfiles/file/33268464991.pdf
    • http://geo-equipe.it/userfiles/files/pituziripugibufiledo.pdf
    • http://caratow.eu/userfiles/file/duzuxotalijid.pdf
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uplectmdbqgs8qdc76563bgj6v/95350540353.pdf
    • http://giga.sk/storage/file/zobimedasepuzamowodagej.pdf
    • http://sequoia60.com/clients/875776/File/mazupivore.pdf
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c669fb622190d324311bcda4af19ef6/52335638363.pdf
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14d4d3a84c3dc4d53be29aac159cec9f/dukilefexuvukajep.pdf
    • http://teormech.ru/teormech/usrimg/file/57650301626.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f857.bin
e7ba2c2e1a9a235fca99470f33e26798ba76a97d9d6628b16589ec4716916b9c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF857 17456 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001265d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1265D 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013e74.bin
464a5be597d93478e4389be5514752d7c4b72eb5115600b67e64b2486dfbbe62
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E74 10220 bytes