Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0dc303a9f1bccdc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-06-27 22:11:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 1094c66f0d0b1580b97fc1df42b7b0f2 SHA-1: 746b4bd8ebf6d5c2bb4ca5403127b937b969b0a2 SHA-256: a0dc303a9f1bccdcd5328427d4877d56cfadac5c6106bb8037eafdf42ad454c8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of numerous links pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, combined with a 'download button' lure, strongly suggests a phishing or scam campaign. The ML classifier also returned a high probability of maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://massvt.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/25943121550.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://giolog.biz/images/bulk_images/files/14981290247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5279eb205c---woriwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac10ec529536726adb5a9d36daf2947f/96622990185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/63906748788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toptehnik.si/images/jizazaguxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toeterloeh44.de/files/5551046155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bae85fa93fc88a42cdc1e13b3e2e89f7/69999250686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5bc21d91a---23381190632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotteppta.com/beta/assets/file/66577203026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herningbadintra.dk/app/webroot/upload/files/34057203297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f9b7ddff9f6d5cec9f999a863e74c6e/vefaduzerixoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf9173c93f18eb3a3d037c94f50880b2/bujivabijuzazasujod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab8349e48c---kusetetimujofagav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/7074699394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.evisiontiendaonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wavamapetirulodufez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a1c23860f9e8476f94a31e8e2bf8f8f/2220250800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://millecolori.it/images/file/60094265834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitegenerale.tn/userfiles/file/bafisovavuwekoxazevalogus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/skpg15u9b4ch65bqufat1mu8pt/33318784226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0836973b5736b38105fea7c6d485dae6/98329201943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00254463cfe0b0e882f26f671e21ff2d/61583272112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlh.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/xojakuzoroziraxinadena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be14f5b2082---vojawuwivetumojusubeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=girl+scout+songbook+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/198a0cb2de5ca73e07cad317d7d7a0a5/tikukuw.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_off0000d1e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1E4 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 7e2f6561ab95760658248998b3861773da38af30e3b74dba94e9a514413ae031
font_01_sfnt_off0000eab8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAB8 17004 bytes
SHA-256: cdd652927b24af0fb6291755934e9b09235b6ef65f4060ac83bf9beb1d824bd4
font_02_sfnt_off00011747.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11747 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1