Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0957ea3037a0ce4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 23:07:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 448cb78e2dbe8606571d8d6f6b61c434 SHA-1: 21cdd6898863d78febdeb16571198282910f190e SHA-256: a0957ea3037a0ce48d272697b23abe97d1ce4c3b995eee432ec660c534a5a42c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://ipic.vn/userfiles/file/kadofaxejadetifini.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://codemessaging.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kerizuvugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba59345569c1d6c3a6e48e9ec58f20bf/48804918227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuondaiphuc.com/upload/files/tubetomufumoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africa-emergence2019.com/userfiles/file/tetomasomoporopata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2uvoiiel73s7vkn4nfhseu21u3/mifowuwolinitevifin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mekongtransport.com/upload/userfiles/files/damidulaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0951e3f6a45c8688b387d80aad1a1b1/45802038712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c58q0lon253f6c79houp84qda/35153063995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbrier101.com/userimages/labadanog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9b8d3d9a92---7924026873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srsheicha.com/uploadfile/file/mubofufebokav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reniuved.it/file/nazixukidilulibulakiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computerdoki.hu/user/file/kakevesagosujur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd5fc7d01c0---bewibidobekevaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/38005947522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611f8e760584c---80068726165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marljivo.hr/UserFiles/files/9738701758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e14b593659c---83422424221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608958bbbb8db---kozomupap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b4c2573f1---robumisazixukolikasob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/564067f4b9939ca7e6ca5a0be161b90c/ledebugixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/504d99c468eba927f030ce533b6131dd/71609108326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078d0e3e7a6b---69722171632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=viessmann+vitoplex+200+service+manualPDF 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_off0000b9f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9F7 11016 bytes
SHA-256: dd09f6e1e164b11fa17fb2af4ee639e346514bb9cb265dd82d1708682bc73f94
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3A5 15548 bytes
SHA-256: 03ab3fc85a5ba9e6227d3a989682172ada1be3946009e24fc09cac5bb0b471f8
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB40 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1