Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0fab7449778cd4c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-05-27 12:23:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 47ef8276279189bbc10a7953e57a78e7 SHA-1: 9539fac47f620a30d019cec34fe8d02a94f60829 SHA-256: d0fab7449778cd4c55fff12c294b363f20abe6e3ab794281dac4098cb7f3e1f6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'how to use a calor gas heater', likely a pretext to disguise malicious intent. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest this document is part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://serwisnawigacji.pl/userfiles/file/99131154945.pdf
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098468c1756a---sojeganosetulek.pdf
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7584634ad228a52c8b94eef233350872/witelato.pdf
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e0c041e499---43721871435.pdf
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e9ee213b69cd23f21a11e64b3d1bc82/nunamume.pdf
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90eei2k6r6aapqpm2ivil7pmpa/rivevowokilaloguvagexob.pdf
    • https://geneolock.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/vugoseji.pdf
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc6c894e2ad575149d31dc84fc797abf/81915844122.pdf
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rupm6hm0ptpjcrudfobpq970ca/14056788676.pdf
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db3d6b968254fd093ca24acf0b376605/39603710055.pdf
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hg55udfdi14j1211l6n2p40pm7/1267360404.pdf
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609de1e304035---kobafozonanodiv.pdf
    • https://wegofa.com/userfiles/file/gudanalujitunevanafojejez.pdf
    • https://atl-50.com/files/file/53848790198.pdf
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070e9c5c70a8---vagujibupi.pdf
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a105139d0a1---gaxotipimiko.pdf
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099de23d2454---39755153383.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+use+a+calor+gas+heater
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fb12.bin
30c93bdb36d56336462a82551e998b4df92314cd31de024238e9cd853acfb743
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB12 5116 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010c7c.bin
094004bc3b16747f91c03a8164587e6279efddbf01cd9271e85f60970008da0c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C7C 11308 bytes