Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0d22c15d0506f51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-06-19 03:35:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 47cb1747f19bc93190a6b927f3105110 SHA-1: 9016c08b7854910611951176f943b16f3d51e038 SHA-256: a0d22c15d0506f518fda0a7826f66b35a900624c46c7df0ca506c1604c03c0a0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to redirect the user to external, potentially harmful, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+poisonous+tree PDF link annotation
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160808c4056f9c---sugolorukageman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e6d5306671---zepidosepavimiraxijes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e050990c8463e3a1d989751a58ae8213/tadufotewekisopenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noxsun.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210615093136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nsotdnnqcph9u2th115181h03k/592944046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e0b5383b60---pavufibikegunuvifuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e90eb537cb48f174f4e3b899909b400/53126114679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2835a28b5a---xipenefaxejatelapabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0e603399b---lekuwomedawid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosmopolitanhotelbg.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/6241552070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backkwang.com/userData/board/file/fovuseriroguxerekejuwex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duonglaohanoi.com/userfiles/file/27019582174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seigyobannkaigaikikaku.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26079509190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea385c8532b80b4aafb97316baa84a69/58470642896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e804.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE804 4616 bytes
SHA-256: dbcbe18df51e9d9d5664e4290e3e18fe51f2e30b8d85663058757153a5699209
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7AD 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 804cd0ec46566b9c250891551e2f291359fa37fca01d3c4d8093f62fc93623d3