Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0faec04ed8b9014d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-16 23:34:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 07be4ab38f54311378ebc261f2cada5f SHA-1: 1d1d31262597d6c86281c156e20895ee5a6612ea SHA-256: 0faec04ed8b9014dc724b843b0e47aeb417e60f2bc01d51f8834ba59a33b00e8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with multiple URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://sbairs.com/datas/files/11721413607.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://st-ark.it/userfiles/files/9118927169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/slmq0hqtlcdqcu0ubgpk2fboh2/luruzenajisugewan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herborgthailand.com/file_media/file_image/file/62332001506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emartdeko.pl/galeria/file/67459696181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a5a582c8b4---loguxakiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benetworkingpro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17184258655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novastal.pl/userfiles/file/maponi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pollackmihalyiskola.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94306582728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pandoraecza.com/genelresimler/file/3005435907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-abroad-travel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/16684350601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cardolf.ro/files/vudugufixonexulopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dryoucosmeceutical.com/userfiles/files/gidawuramikajeketovubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serka.com/serka/upload/files/67052753983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fec874d257---50167554622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scales-center.com/shop/fck_file/file/47065885592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gsbjk05k30opn52tg4omdehph4/2119966978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veaodaibrahma.com/uploads/image/files/97088361148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mallenmediations.com/mallenmediations/images/userfiles/file/78843614292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nstoplana.rs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lenewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vroa.pl/chplusfiles/file/dosagidarowurebik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptkas.com/kingkong/userfiles/files/bafiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bocamvigliesrooms.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24694ce5a14db3577d1955cf3e056490/fijur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=g+major+guitar+tabPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000d222.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD222 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA39 10408 bytes
SHA-256: 0a691a8abc5324a8acd979b1ddde1bbaea7ba3548279adbc8b31a08517d0474d
font_02_sfnt_off000101c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101C6 17520 bytes
SHA-256: 35e15d09bb2fb999aac80b7ac4b72380a0957aa7e4acf118931cbe380c11bb2f