Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0708a125939998b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-07 02:45:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: d548ccf9a0056ce99617cccd4bef4260 SHA-1: bac78b80d8eb46c116b4bcbb7535aa21256b2499 SHA-256: a0708a125939998b1492ae5310603245a42f67cfd0c1e61b24530eaee6695eee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the detected heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://picassogift.com/Uploadfiles/files/33217888085.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e0e1f4f5ba---93370635083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheumatology.institute/upload/content/file/88810664662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e827ac0711ba08b874ee135dd0071a2/92557403148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldapa.eus/files/galeria/files/59125145092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070418055204---derabij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armagedonspedycja.pl/files/file/25948533040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607576fa4787c---22786766742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fff9b6623b---4629832626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matchedtubes.de/userfiles/file/pawibagala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/smmoaanbrk9cm3iamltctfb980/rowegafabajegebute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ab50481b2---tomakanosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606de63cb9e1a---52093225213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/44110529159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maility.pl/_ADRESuserfiles/file/tesoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qcq8d8a3efhhdvf62a4psrmtef/49139709985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ce877ecad---67308130751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdefb8cbe09---4190579599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac4020e4320---veviborezurorexiluwapavok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmvlpslimited.com/ci/userfiles/files/93117140562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contectrade.hu/fckfiles/file/73803825802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=med+e+enlarge+before+and+afterPDF link annotation
    • http://e1pl2.nazwa.pl/busy/fotki/file/fuwulufewuvowotunelax.pdfIn 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_off0000ee89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE89 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106A0 10404 bytes
SHA-256: 2939df7589419bafd67b45f73a3cb7e68a89cd633fcb107ca99d9e38732d41c7
font_02_sfnt_off00011e15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E15 17372 bytes
SHA-256: 72d44aa0ca107a20c4010550adb62e2034e39e8babd975cf85f181481dc3a82f