Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0fc0481f388de195…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-08-27 04:31:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 882f1b98e1ddc8dc0af6caeccdbae2ce SHA-1: 1d94988fe9195a15aa80e5814853eb66a2e5b688 SHA-256: 0fc0481f388de195a0549f37b8809c6f7d01e8dd4f083418bc1dd38887085cf4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. Heuristics and ClamAV detection confirm its malicious nature, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of specific execution methods.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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=contrast+and+contradiction PDF link annotation
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160838054ea69c---9630030147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgl.lu/userfiles/files/27264436800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yalcinsezer.com/upload/ckfinder/files/notesalewuwunonezexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgyscom.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-5/20210705052459444320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfi-registration.org/buzzboxgift/img/userfiles/files/38832988976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3a6dda3eaf---lutabaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosiriosrl.it/userfiles/files/lomopesamorod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelamoha.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2643dc83eb---1631221910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpinist.store/sribati/editor/uploadfiles/tomogujoxele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.parkwaytransplant.com/media_upload/upload/files/pilat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stoewebdesign.no/userfiles/file/89036269729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/35195606083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30bca2e939a7fd4d38b0f08caa765dd8/zipetaxazafetaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccfbf79a62---piluvuligaxenepiguragilas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinice-rasy.cz/files/file/dusigik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxmx.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202108250421097941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qkon.ca/images/file/mugiwuxipuropiberewiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16112c38a93e8f---tunubewesipajamizakokum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7fccc443f2---22640061957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.domaine-de-la-ferme.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pafulodixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basalyemek.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/naxaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dc262060489f16dc6feff7f8e4d7af5/jimaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bbd5dac7b26f4f704979e99830e3827/33141655396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f789057ed4acb6d1121901d739e034ab/kuziviresaxonosuzuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vikingenglish.blogspot.com/2014/08/contrast-contradiction-quiz.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://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_off0000cb6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB6A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e37c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE37C 17052 bytes
SHA-256: 09025ede5dfe8b1486be4ffdbb121a0831cccb198cdf41b6a1c111a885e10e53
font_02_sfnt_off00011049.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11049 10216 bytes
SHA-256: 894708714e97c8d6e9ef70f44945dbf66195a8c1631d30d9e249129d01b3c4cd