Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da0c6bceac3ae70a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 19:52:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b01bf7cadefb4a8e36c560caaa0845a3 SHA-1: 99b6adc2a139aa48118f00fa462f7fd1de12b057 SHA-256: da0c6bceac3ae70adfa148ef9b56eb1210f11362875e02b2e1f0e49c6ed443a7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of external links and the high confidence verdict indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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 https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wagging+tails+pet+supply
    • http://strategie-online.net/catalogue_dynamique/file/64764912923.pdf
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lf9eog3g8pcq1mt3hel0gu4c87/14655560578.pdf
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f05c6e2126---wikobaxududi.pdf
    • http://119hero.kr/userData/board/file/nufefes.pdf
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a948ad4be46---dofolinam.pdf
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/dugunejuzej.pdf
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce57239cd3---43778729052.pdf
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ab77be21d---saguguk.pdf
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/68973602777.pdf
    • http://duepassidalcentro.it/userfiles/files/retowuvepuriwideb.pdf
    • https://pcstaiwan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6000167877.pdf
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61141249c9fa2ae3260300b67fd934aa/12641460976.pdf
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d7d9daa471---dikusupudaxigaru.pdf
    • http://nextgenship.net/upload/file/20210525162197131814.pdf
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a8ed73053---vomepejuponef.pdf
    • http://tevukasveza.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56294379430.pdf
    • http://briarcliff70.com/clients/874901/File/gurugowa.pdf
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072bb20bb43e---mamokoxew.pdf
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6e3adbb6b5---kaguxunebabuwokigularo.pdf
    • https://mamo-tato.ro/userfiles/file/22056833509.pdf
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e6e010810---vodiwi.pdf
    • http://footstepfloor.com/upfiles/files/nabezijugewu.pdf
    • 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://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ba89.bin
ebb8f6d997b9702337c82e9910ac46024c197826a28b239eff59662e340417d6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA89 17408 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e841.bin
94327f2c42ef9f3308cfb6dd44d2491397832da9df333c100a1f5c4f91fb5e8c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE841 10416 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fffb.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFFB 16792 bytes