Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0a7cab4b01c18d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 10:54:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d0e0899ad956a63b6569148aff477ac2 SHA-1: 703994b923a981f860e83781e7c4496c45819d34 SHA-256: c0a7cab4b01c18d9e0b6d9edb93968bb1c4989ae7072b7c3899395ecc574bd89
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports this assessment. The embedded JavaScript likely serves to facilitate the malicious redirection or exploit.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://drprdesaihospital.com/uploads/43729147865.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bloc-immo.com/images/jilonemotokipolejekapaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://93564497.com/userfiles/60953250773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17jti2v6j30mg7n06ahpqsa3ar/mujujodikopegavuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bharatdarshan.net/rgroup/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58728087579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ni3ps9d0agappi4o0uj7atsjh9/fumisokodewobijuguduxedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zippy-inc.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/32830382379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4990e0d341f24d6087130ab446a2cb21/vekeguloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab723a7d2f---ridifolakijawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetfanini.eu/userfiles/files/70625680630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biometria.pl/photos_fck/file/79081717938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://borneneskontor-landsforening.dk/userfiles/file/4906485309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzky.cn/dubeite/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210814_071622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biotanika.pl/upload/file/dakuzoxujegazikejigaxaduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d572ca1b933---dofibitenanudizazatelukaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/14346866024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bracyfamilyreunion.com/clients/c/c2/c2db1a97f769835965582c74015c7782/File/popikufedutonik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lexconsulting.ro/webroot/files/media/pudowinadorutapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libron.pl/fckupload/assets/file/61749522558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://led7.ru/file/nasezebozazijubexub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transilvaniafishing.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/33732855986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurumakaitori-one.com/js/upload/files/dazomofol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lukoilmarine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94885334509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=blank+12+month+calendar+pdfPDF 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_off0000c926.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC926 16856 bytes
SHA-256: ec17dd41b1f4aa15dee0645fa5a3b097988429a02324703bc3e6eee3abd2fd25
font_01_sfnt_off0000f49b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF49B 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 40e8a8b6ca7ba19e0002eefc7d5654039dfd02ba7495752e01329a322df370b9
font_02_sfnt_off00010de2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DE2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1