Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0fe2c570f9f7827d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 00:56:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 390532ade4064657b341b6ce6be29bcb SHA-1: 623806e048ec3da37b5096cbde0822e5cdf36d65 SHA-256: 0fe2c570f9f7827d95bd563189704a5d7cbfa263a828e86a09e8866dc483d441
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The presence of external URIs and a link farm heuristic strongly supports a phishing or malware distribution 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://namngonviet.vn/user-/files/90386420957.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aldurra.ly/images-editeur/img/file/judewefatup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133e0c693ecb---97813674575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb56ea26039---40582968722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23eadfbb7104c1967842895584b51212/kilorupezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danfilenemd.com/clients/67744/File/69205906240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limuzine.md/userfiles/file/tiwofiwivesago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brnc85.com/clients/878796/File/84251204319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioicamdo.com/upload/files/dodetosobepalune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pearproperties.in/userfiles/file/degise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://responsible-tourism-alliance.com/content_file/files/82551685009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/roviki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radio-salsa.com/php/rs/filesupload/file/vofilujorejugowalusezop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mhfmjournal.com/data/22/2/55/64/2544879/user/2788947/htdocs/userfiles/file/poremofuzewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silesiacapital.eu/data/file/75817857542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/971644a7833a94a33039b179ef6b3277/86169920378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610e72b180bdc---79251414011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16113decf9d983---48967684652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f8ca0f64fca271f62bab69a36f8edd6/kepasumerov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renknh.com/ckupload/files/voratod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/62660579606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3fb8c14d92b5acd7cf1ac2a00edabb6/1396472871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c096feaf5a2ca737fcf1751385e6d1a1/dugijujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=perfect+progressive+tense+worksheet+with+answersPDF 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_off0000c973.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC973 18308 bytes
SHA-256: 0f789778d4819011f5105694631a514bd596dce60e0de514df9c7578716c61ff
font_01_sfnt_off0000f905.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF905 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001111c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1111C 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 78a23e5480fce5ca6da9750729a065ac7b73382f622ef999b93fa40e36ade858