Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0bea885bc82634f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 18:30:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c0c4817ea388fbe31dd2c0495f2aa9a8 SHA-1: 0cbcef3f2b238fffe41456c4d885873ac76d0904 SHA-256: a0bea885bc82634f362effd1a2f208eecdb161f8db1713c0ea1b4ae1fa15e9a3
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 and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised websites and link farms, indicating a likely phishing or malware distribution scheme. The file's structure and the nature of the URLs suggest it is used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cooperate+in+a+short+sentence PDF link annotation
    • http://meubelenindex.nl/images/uploads/zimifesefudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b57662d339977dd13592f4d51f55968/nuzutevebelubagojadujap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baglab.pl/galeria/file/73824541728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c73a5a34850---73148761315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steps4cancer.org/clients/a/a7/a78c374070a178914b502abaf3db82b8/File/14480494098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbbgprpk7biiq.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guxakiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichihr.com/uploads/news_file/56430628229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/31745496352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izumrud38.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuzokogebexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopol.it/userfiles/files/30059634581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/112bbeeaa6e5ec317c86227a103f6a12/90409088357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maihome.hu/admin1/file/46089896006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f384a7ecdb---94295595051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2uvbnd2okh4apfgksgqude00jo/81942343793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u5ocrf3pnsrqgo4tn62frarhe7/91468356925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doucetplasticsurgery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39434700704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urdu-hadith.com/survey/userfiles/files/xagerefafurakirun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagumul.com/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210608032839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ada1ffa7828---jutare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4f7015cd63---zararemekozezomirajoniga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89419523132a760d3cdc7cf968e0171d/najazexalowajixuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arichaindia.com/userfiles/file/nuwimilaxugusut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/puvuvil.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_off0000e71d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE71D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF2F 16812 bytes
SHA-256: 76716400d764ee17101459906a9ff1ce894edf331895c8df25c002fd94c89d0e
font_02_sfnt_off00012b12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B12 10456 bytes
SHA-256: 32ea4962f1fdbe5ea1bb5e7e48aac6966e0ee9050f7d36f0478d224ffa946128