Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0a7dc35a9af479f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 06:35:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 1e90492d58ec4a7b12dd175ce31b007c SHA-1: 43758a0587da7096274003f154b993fc817b47de SHA-256: b0a7dc35a9af479f3adb96a6596e9773b6f83b1b9b8de087c829b781f845a381
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest this PDF is a phishing trojan. The presence of a download button lure further supports the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://dental-forum.ru/userfiles/file/54375114721.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6in936j38vc6iask85jltl8s8b/bopipikiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s-h.cc/uploads/files/202108140136199847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rintrans.com/files/rixenitafugajogefipax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malayalamfoundation.org/admin/my_files/file/16845880036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afmiletisim.com/resimler/files/56579541467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prplus4u.com/ckupload/files/gigomesusesikizodof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://escaletravel.com/userfiles/files/93607570563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flagrant-desir.com/userfiles/file/56107356901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhasachconggiao.com/luutru/files/zuvoted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lt101shop.com/userfiles/files/40264643624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/315bef05a786559478f85157cd0f95aa/9158346106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e378078a4abca5bdaaf7f23bfb5fd5bd/95694968849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99e485312eb3fd39649d593a10313949/kusunosotofumorotaravu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8b827eb71d---87172806808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5bb5d10e5---lajagok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szalkasszorutacskok.hu/app/webroot/files/content/files/puxogipugudunanajivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartgallery.com/clientMedia/file/rozeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101-games.ru/images/uploads/files/zanekokosiwerowedinejur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.parkwaytransplant.com/media_upload/upload/files/vabepoxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sladkiy-ostrov.ru/userfiles/files/2880804544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://areaengineeringsrl.eu/userfiles/files/14376288256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/us0rjkt0ltig97tpe24ojncvvb/51799464282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5a0ebad154---gasepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611918a9d7004---88478636887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://31app.com/userfiles/file/41886887535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generaldistco.com/images/file/81315654181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=transformers+3+full+movie+telugu+dubbed+downloadPDF 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_off0000e318.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE318 11224 bytes
SHA-256: cf2c4b6960efc8196f6d5513c3d154687c3520a87d699223168302f4b5c544ed
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD46 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011558.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11558 17140 bytes
SHA-256: 0c95df6d50a18e57232f8ad0b31a25f9d9603166cd8c699e6ec2b86f2475cb57