Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0fa96162bdeccfcd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-07-02 03:24:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: efb59757ad4a457d20e398f67f697fc2 SHA-1: 8cd89ec68def9295dfde799962ea39ca3b59e0f3 SHA-256: 0fa96162bdeccfcd28846d6c52b6ec923151da4e4b235568120255224194ab86
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to external, potentially malicious sites, rather than executing code directly from the PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9941

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 http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073dc5cc444c---50171348709.pdf
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbf6be0190---18754401425.pdf
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608564b357289---milemimepituzuvago.pdf
    • http://zonweringbelgie.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zakekenuxavusabazo.pdf
    • https://whatproperty.ng/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74589550548.pdf
    • https://sluganarodu.org/userfiles/files/lawumijolopigesegetanijo.pdf
    • http://italiancousins.net/clients/5/54/54f3d33123424807706abe9154268524/File/97147717496.pdf
    • http://morgancountyoh.com/userimages/79816694720.pdf
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/084597300a25c268d9a5781f4d3d4c09/wevipamege.pdf
    • http://crystalsteakandstogie.com/clients/1/1d/1dbb6d5698303b6304ae84622e226a19/File/powutejerirozot.pdf
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a64f65e9c35---kagolufu.pdf
    • http://elfuklid.cz/foto/Image/file/3083723929.pdf
    • https://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc59ee2143632960568b5cac19a0b81f/wudowenegabubaselasubipa.pdf
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cb7684367ab40a2c5946ecbb587be16/67007543813.pdf
    • http://okzawidow.pl/img/upload/files/37930540466.pdf
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8pboetp9rgvop0d2ce03hjn14t/53726010427.pdf
    • https://zevkotodoseme.com/upload/ckfinder/files/dosek.pdf
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9e10eef087---gitexivijelu.pdf
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lqr9dlk3c20f0vosfjd61gotkm/vubizizizesut.pdf
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c143f34165e---nepixuw.pdf
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bbc288574d---63025363437.pdf
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b693457d9e061336a58bffa1cbe95dc/woxotixitulenereti.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=he%27s+bigger+than+me+and+stronger+than+me
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dc70.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC70 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f487.bin
5b33e196206f110713cf8c361a8798825ab07d082fc936291b7af6ca9c980d16
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF487 10812 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010d10.bin
4c42978d28bf7cf1d30c5b25e41dd0e9b6189b7a5db74167c5fc9e351b6f4ac1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D10 18520 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00012b36.bin
03a2b1fafd066325c8dd64d860b11c628c19c61e54c23fc5935fb0051b6c536d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B36 19828 bytes