Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0fa223bf38edb6e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-23 06:27:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 71d23a3e0a93fee28d10a97368b6b728 SHA-1: f65677bbff4a6b0e61acb8eff8233a25780ff70c SHA-256: d0fa223bf38edb6e95da472587051f701a2ca76b91b64fb367834090b70f2818
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a phishing campaign, leveraging a link farm hosted on compromised websites to direct users to download potentially malicious files. The presence of multiple URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, combined with the ML classifier's high confidence score and ClamAV detection, strongly suggests malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing lure designed to trick users into downloading a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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 https://vietucmould.com/img-vietuc/files/11308342541.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://drticket.ir/basefile/drtiketcom/files/kotoxapawowaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cqc-material.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/15323029418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136050b3837e---45747771338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613552f21bfd6---lomolawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lemarko.com/userfiles/file/67741885433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144cb197d933---29821396524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce7e1531f41ea7a68b6ecd0adc97152e/femawitakugawos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charmingcurls.se/upload/file/83516233737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scea.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12580078588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jasz-pap.hu/UserFiles/file/8987584293.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://frontiermyanmar.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/redelavajuxafenutefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dotacjedlaoze.pl/userfiles/file/31637996538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pro9apps.com/app/webroot/files/uploadimagesfile/gomug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anne-berger.de/sites/anne-berger.de/files/fkcfile/60805935206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alltechsro.cz/files/68520359149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markyatirim.com/resimler/files/xotasevakemubepigew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1amishc2fb.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64559899737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sccsfz.org/upload/2021-09/55234697061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hzautomatisering.nl/userfiles/file/36792630505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukrarska-vyroba.cz/UserFiles/File/vuvebimenaxiraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smsalumni1971.com/apadmin/uploads/userfiles/files/26225085963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konemara.hu/userfiles/file/pinerilolejabimumor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketingnews.fr/images/file/jivobuwede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicyazd.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68551574602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strap.sk/uploads/files/5688206523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scea.edu.mn/ckfiIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=best+playstation+2+emulator+androidPDF 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_off0000d93c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD93C 17920 bytes
SHA-256: 0cb7ae717746da857d0267ba05690e98ee70936dae8e1bba2a256b5ad93c704a
font_01_sfnt_off00010784.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10784 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F9B 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 8bd1449f15c6fc383774465cc7d8493323447f20066ef38dd46272eff83514da