Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0cf3e655e7c7eb8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-07-25 03:47:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 30110ac58f906a27b49bdb56ecc3b07e SHA-1: 08b5ae7dba8d423334ecfc12dedd7a48486c0331 SHA-256: a0cf3e655e7c7eb8625c84973a0d0a71a3e435d2ed67bb0c7566d7af247e4ed0
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via embedded URLs. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://aplus.to/userfiles/file/54452574635.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pnsrkeurosbeadfbmet0cv60gm/wuradinaxenijivixige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608308fa947d2---ximitenexowutezelaniza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48d3da45887a101fdd88b4bcdd2232ee/71082870962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siphonicflowmandiri.com/upload/files/52084463639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd63ed839b---2653156109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a49d6d4efeb---10426641893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ndc65fm22dqfff9otca9qpqu3o/mowefela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a44cd8bcb0ac48f5c9202ce1805e51d8/70938696025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/16836473844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.su/userfiles/files/15324140858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd6e86eef486ef00991aa101fd08198c/54769097226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fereshtegan.net/basefile/fereshtegannet/files/59736665215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ddfa645439---lemagupezinakurifupivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b7c3130851882d3cf2c0f6766cafa6a/27182517764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e03293ee6748c8ad3ad26055e507257/wumubopuwobitur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b2b503884---437160677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ct7gbmfub0u6ltp5da92q3896/18105101632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.letspassdriving.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sjormci2qnvu8taqc0o9dqljpf/40830782439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimtuong.vn/isc/public/files/fckupload/file/68156541525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b8f1b5dc47b27cd40dc235c15e2699a/zeragone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/20710971311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osikovo.eu/webroot/img/content/files/lubab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=maisto+tech+rock+crawler+pro+seriesPDF 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_off0000c5c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5C9 17780 bytes
SHA-256: 18eaa2dc7390048f7d8c9f1d3aa08cf1d84a8232f2327e412f3980a03571436d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f356.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF356 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 73d10bfa4803cf083087be2dfa1fc5b60e15e8f3fcd5ce3ed76ae9a92f980a42
font_02_sfnt_off00010b9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B9E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1