Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0902cda8365e136…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-08-25 12:56:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 75de04a88411a9f03fe5338c8eb2a6b1 SHA-1: 9f7270d0866b16443dc1c4c2501739456ae90492 SHA-256: a0902cda8365e13657c1ea059bf6b16775a92ec4002182b2daf13d6185a0fcdf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload storage locations and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to external, potentially harmful, URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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 https://smilepaper.tw/archive/upload/files/tirufewatijaxugedaviza.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://comfortinnbarrie.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/45173761078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourdesign.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fenivomen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keacg.com/upload/files/28065272491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--faade-zra.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80882242628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steammining.com/userfiles/file/19659327534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubin2000-distribuitorshop.ro/userfiles/file/48211620955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfwarbitrator.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zotixerofev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiangzhuan.tw/upload/files/39310775030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brlairport.com/images/file/palonerutupubowafegixusem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d0281497b---zivorexufokazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01a120f7db7f2096aeba8522f59b9cbd/82825946537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://candica.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77057101164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d38b4a8fb89---rapov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biovuspharma.net/userfiles/files/11173380322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playeasypiano.com/resources/fck_images/95442083954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210630112617140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bige.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/bexojodadojepirefidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a858665ad6e---lixadaruvaravakomap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dhesient.com/media/29105447114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101-games.ru/images/uploads/files/68337410472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imotrading.com/images/userfiles/36280193349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607da6569b379---zopamasoludezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topnotchimports.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63146352350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balone.net/_upload/file///takabowevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=demons+and+angels+a+boogie+lyricsPDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0ba4aaf0723f695c191da08a2aec1b8/guwararasesapid.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_off0000de69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE69 20004 bytes
SHA-256: 21f648fd6f7988a8ed224fed5ce93f948bdc70a80983f7f46d99223e28048f64
font_01_sfnt_off0001117e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1117E 10868 bytes
SHA-256: bd3fefca226faa6540ccae2058813fa12792f68f80384cbf820fc9c17b5a579f
font_02_sfnt_off00012a5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A5A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1