Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0fdece2fd926552d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 03:28:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 948ad042403614b70c7ea1edef4d4f39 SHA-1: 9357c21c700b9e5e8f47cc23023b6e4d86a27ef8 SHA-256: 0fdece2fd926552d314315a8860773a88a4976276de07c9d3a250637587f5d8f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to distribute further malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aee56ff0313---toxixawuw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hmradiatoriai.lt/images/files/kulexagotukiteburomesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607045d351a6d---3575742476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timeyear-v.com/userfiles/file/5936323165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baltyk.recykling-rejs.pl/imgturysta/files/vuguzebosixamexatelolosaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chothuethietbi.info/img/files/kukelagexujomulevewokes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4849d3629edf90a80627619e6d61106/lifurovarotaxakimisuwolox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1d0c5307c4---16361732514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46dd5cjtge1pb3vgkdl8bsgda5/5694949790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43f6122034b094a136fd8b6ba7407296/xesejubumasopenozepuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alrukn.co/userfiles/files/relaxojenizitajak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelexpert.ro/uploads/files/98358848289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1caa0c0bd45708484ea0a704d0dba11/dufepikesafuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaimassageboy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zefuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktifithalat.com/resimlerfiles/tibulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/33568249645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmepta.com/clients/7/74/74ea2f63c40943e6497cbf70acaf7c81/File/fevoxurazijiliweze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://italvaping.com/file/79870424538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jr-bang.com/uploadfiles/20210824121424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60eaaae13ec3625e54d343059f499ddd/40247619640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaplaitalia.it/userfiles/files/94876238349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xnucleus.com/members/member_images/files/bazobowetalisafujiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d988bb9a4c---62895526372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szabobuszberles.hu/files/files/90320203132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=cellule+vegetale+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://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_off0000ec41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC41 10284 bytes
SHA-256: fc7e6786d7906a969d868fe1aaf321733cc76752318323bce1097e3ca7d81687
font_01_sfnt_off00010364.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10364 18140 bytes
SHA-256: 8c152b66fc30801777d0a76c2f9ebbc584fe62c32bf7831df44e9120c003933d
font_02_sfnt_off000132bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1