Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0fc37d3c11fbb65e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-06-24 22:59:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 69aeae431e37222f91fc5c4915c2ff0d SHA-1: f79d9672227b417b52bdc9f5c1b4df08dfec5cc4 SHA-256: 0fc37d3c11fbb65e7eeb7d82abf9398672e3427cba2c65186cf809fee3dde5ea
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c03df7347f0---15763757215.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/120cb87f029d760c94cf82acd3a58cc2/pidik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgenship.net/upload/file/2021061016233163930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s1qu3k657bcapvaihh09u0dap1/11960439489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kperrylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/9576162114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/083d8190e041aa95f38e5e8def0d2047/wejuwosofigigugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/nobefejujoriwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a99b0648189---punedotozabiwepazopexep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gymostrov.org/gymostrov/userfiles/file/82640352480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d9acfdd5716fb3a44bca17e8b1c07b3/wuvewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knuhpharm.kr/userfiles/file/20210623112149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b834465c033---noxujawufuxuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webbuilders.com/files/file/49088204514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a032d0d6b4b---48148193349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/534187888802279c612ce6993ec77d92/zevoziduxamawoxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4fbc2486c---nuvirire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaushalacademy.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23858153859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f641cbd21d---kiwik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wojno-stal.pl/pliki/file/62435150019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef7867aff82eef89a6ef14420a731b17/baxejukizuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=12th+matric+maths+book+pdfPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f5c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5C6 5656 bytes
SHA-256: 116a8b8a77ddcccb6d6305a30024f476bfee36ef7cc8687e44a2d6f888682e23
font_01_sfnt_off000108d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108D0 18716 bytes
SHA-256: 51ebd843f9b5178a88de46a9637232453f6e4597780a47bfc029ef411cc13f56
font_02_sfnt_off00013149.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13149 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 60f344a49f8580487686fe583ed45d686639be4617600026b083297ee7995fea