Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0a1e46186ce7d02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:16:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 176da3b19d684b31e153bd2c236d5a3e SHA-1: ee965a76511e7b8f87955355dadd9574a650b3da SHA-256: d0a1e46186ce7d02a5013e9c1999412b9036ab77d4567d891da43d73d46f980a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of external URIs and the overall heuristic profile indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://gptools.net/userfiles/file/16344522470.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1l7d1ckuj540mt059eo2951gh3/73012947355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangduy.vn/vn/files/8583979735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linhquan-group.com/upload/ck/files/69495352842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbivesinhanhhuy.com/asset/files/19400642029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/mevixatudekuxenoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidurmalam.com/contents//files/61291801894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16114e359b4d90---jeketebume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/55314954686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equantumconsulting.com/files/files/46409528197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshamrockpublecco.it/file/15403855618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/gagetofesox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiovalentini.eu/userfiles/files/bikexenovoxosewaponezef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heizler.hu/files/file/mapumuxukano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609870d350d45---weniwigov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luatsubienhoa.com/upload/ck/files/2063494719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a1e6eccf2e3b03624c1393e2982c90f/suridisakadilesikaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12shio3.com/contents//files/gekesux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scro.ru/pic/file/32231261824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t1738lu7d9cum0ukl09cp1irv1/solitubewofogatusatin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c78420ac9---zexigigutij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3eb8f15e9f---16093338591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profession-your-dr.com/uploads/files/202108151911194470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160757055c53d5---kupafitajujekawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8984632338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=planning+portal+permitted+development+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_off0000dfc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFC9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7DB 16752 bytes
SHA-256: 5832affd14c43bcf97f7e3401006a8dc389b58f223aba445ac7c3937bb72edc8
font_02_sfnt_off00012257.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12257 10740 bytes
SHA-256: fba6f424d72748b2211e58c4310618902806080f80aed48d0fb2e682e20deeca