Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0a3529fe72a343b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-17 01:42:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 292aed1847e4a3a0f00517d45ad7e5d5 SHA-1: 63e273db83a087dd92276a6e9ab7683a03af5591 SHA-256: c0a3529fe72a343badf32865082dd2d8ab557a70e5e576331c864d91b8780f24
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with several URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to download further content, likely a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://hoaisonland.vn/upload/files/41691129906.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5351fab37d00fe2f1772a8e1e4c93cf5/vozuzelirosefezema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwpetersburg.com/uploads/files/burujisomogeforudiwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donkaew-furniture.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40814873545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eng.sut.ac.th/tce/2016/administrator/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96010251433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7j5fv7tiagmlpfif5v6lrhftji/89555170378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maybaobidinhdinh.com/upload/files/timozatawajipazuxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alley.52886.tw/uploads/files/22908360465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halmar.info/userfiles/file/44238537198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bba08027dd---30460948525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychologkmalinowska.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zigajubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpollopaulino.com/cenavarra_userfiles/files/bijebuweraro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/fegoleworokigivasebuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artistprasanna.com/userfiles/file/dexabowiwuzunijimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshanwoo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rapanevoxemelole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drjou-vc.com/upload/files/lanuxixutibis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futsalcb.cz/picture/vtextu/file/zusorepirejawaxajilopapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abouelhoulgroup.com/userfiles/files/72514599475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designbeginnings.com/upload/file/80420715962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139ee5bc0c37---36494741185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ka94kh3hfjso1fdl25t6q84ar/watuwexepupoliposoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodeslaboratori.eu/userfiles/files/nikosobivadip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abdon.madteam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22544254718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-real-estate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xoxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satellietgroep.nl/userfiles/files/kuberowezapokatipofax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=moana+cartoon+full+movie+download+in+tamilPDF 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_off0000daa3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAA3 17304 bytes
SHA-256: daa3eeaea641cfdd37e3bda357d76bc218ba7b57dc52a84270643cae89def398
font_01_sfnt_off00010730.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10730 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F47 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 4925918654a84622be5e74ea43041ff13a6bc7d79abfd0a275e8877faa5d487d