Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0a88746362a3c1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 02:43:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: efd7287dcd943aa58c28858e891a0f5a SHA-1: a8889134389619171ff3f5690d9410ce8a75854d SHA-256: b0a88746362a3c1d967dd1f8a98c4c56d1582ebd9508db817eac02ae85163daf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute phishing or malware. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or credential harvesting attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=relations+and+functions+pdf+class+11
    • http://annamsaigonlaw.com/upload/files/jutideruzonegexada.pdf
    • http://msamerica.net/clients/873634/File/53157839107.pdf
    • http://fairmonteast1978.com/clients/71195/File/segevuzusexapun.pdf
    • https://upbilbao.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17845777870.pdf
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac1df7f2c4f---jopazijiwodirad.pdf
    • http://videotour24.com/data/fckupload/file/zepegejejazipakakex.pdf
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab758ca89f0---pidujowijirikaf.pdf
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085f86f74c9a---93987597650.pdf
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c140e903c7---konafotosasatin.pdf
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d6ade1bdf4---4727424404.pdf
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c89b8c5c058---jexoximumenemajevera.pdf
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///xifuzufizovuguzux.pdf
    • http://dienvietbac.com/uploads/files/gavimatewikokusezusof.pdf
    • http://hzzxtl.com/UploadFile/file/20210728062328198.pdf
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/562673fb665c554283466d75968854bf/fexonusumaxuravi.pdf
    • http://1utilaje.ro/mm/file/86548697773.pdf
    • http://bbbswalkforkids.com/clients/c/cf/cf8d0549bdc9bbdffca8bc0db9808b96/File/jujipitef.pdf
    • http://irina-beha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77048858457.pdf
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/files/guguxudobediko.pdf
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608342dfa0795---gojejifefopozoguva.pdf
    • http://interwork.sk/userfiles/file/sogosag.pdf
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607372e0902ea---23625254820.pdf
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd890147c2f1df427f7828167492b7d4/fuminaxelim.pdf
    • http://movietek.vn/hinh-anh/files/68690422344.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c9a1.bin
766f70e7fc9270a915766e8bad2747a47b1ac2d5d12350c5c0ba8da59b8398ac
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9A1 10708 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e261.bin
6a60ce5dfaacc97f6e092fae48796a6a68454dce70b2a04010fb99ab09a18bef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE261 17880 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011009.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11009 16792 bytes