Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0a38944f5ae3ab0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 00:06:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 02060971be13a12744959ef73a0b8e17 SHA-1: c9ee3447546d11839651fa32f9d39cf48bf0c65b SHA-256: f0a38944f5ae3ab0eab87d00778f706bcf0220c6b44f26dee7a37e80ddecebdd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of external URI heuristics and the ML classification indicate a high likelihood of malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://samavetpharm.com/userfiles/files/fumefip.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/722cd9832b3c58524001233a3a55ab79/27388498735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://textstricker.de/benutzerdateien/52185801028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjbtrh.com/files/pic/file/jeveronajudojesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f0ta7fmbpe7nsboqi6l2n47u1/kikadalusasezetagovutul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laptopplus.be/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/lanexamajusid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eeb602b9e01a4a061d6d1cb49bddff84/fetipaxezuputolasure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9febd0a6f0---94324211692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranduongauto.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/fatatifaxafedatovidetoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/72726074129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16112ec5b23c91---rojeram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skiflogistics.ru/userfiles/file/nuzalezes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfauquemberg.com/home/fauquemb/david/bbdg_site/userfiles/file/68924202428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607513f3340c3---gatadutibaleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f78bd94cb5---48400718410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comp-art.ru/userfiles/file/79174739232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tydafa.com/dafa/uploadfiles/20210727134849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ntl38mg4lobjbp5ml3r4ng9ip7/77171494070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-14/20210514115159306319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/573df82e6b55b82c6282185dbe8a2420/zisum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7f0b955b36---romonit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piscesappliances.com/userfiles/file/13873284066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=call+center+quality+assurance+interview+questions+and+answers+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_off00010384.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10384 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011b96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B96 18976 bytes
SHA-256: 59553f7209e04851ff6b23ab9128d08b1f038b28c891fd2bc2ec88be16cba474
font_02_sfnt_off00014c31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C31 11156 bytes
SHA-256: ebd75d0f8a2c178e0ccacd6dba5b1029b54a23e2cdf12a3afaac85d65475627d