Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0a76da929c0fcea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-07-14 04:57:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e00d59e091389bdd3dd7dd804e24bb9f SHA-1: 8cad9ad80c5255d183b4152128463858673ecc5b SHA-256: f0a76da929c0fcea7ec8fa6b70a00860a3ae6258c582473cde32a987ef997dfe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest an attempt to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92dac2a6cc2268f7b168f7571df41543/74918540362.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076616f2fcc5---53132207147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f048t6b98mch9p75iekpshkc5/ladobasoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab07f5dea4c---razetuvop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/853410a2948d463722647ff0be267b80/46843496493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podiummoda.ru/userfiles/file/xokiwakufozigejowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aahsclassof1978.com/clients/b/b6/b6117739535924054831d33ecd54b00a/File/28541465072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a94e74a5661---mixupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0eo4tlspf1gfc1vnom6pj9m83b/bonewepozafovexefabevilur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16083a3092d6a2---jubojizajedunexisefaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609104488b1a0---55606330029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/jawapabafamebutal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gregor-biffiger.ch/userfiles/file/wubefunusibixusut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koslita.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xoxidoxobale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qlqpbkmk97htd9cmigt19ldl7j/52360170247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/824f83f0236600d9ab63808b43a70972/lirop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lumieretvie.com/userfiles/file/15201107758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/pufabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160736111589ca---82148976949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vintageguitar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nebuxokezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f70b7df39e2347a6560b2da48557afcc/60595396537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=why+are+triangles+the+strongest+shapePDF 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_off0000f77b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF77B 18876 bytes
SHA-256: 28bb6ae08fad9ca6c8fd0ddf3d42bf54a707fbb9bcb9068530be99c2719c3c73
font_01_sfnt_off00012875.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12875 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001408c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1408C 10640 bytes
SHA-256: bbe6b25adbe7ebec9dae473da274fe822714fd061b5b41dad0557ead23964e12

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