Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0a95887b7dc0365…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.9 KB Created: 2021-07-05 05:27:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: da7e7a2b6f2873cf30613243304e9f93 SHA-1: b69276fd67fb46ac99af847c5909135701f84c59 SHA-256: f0a95887b7dc036575ba61d15cccf14ea0181f953787975b8292934832186188
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, likely for SEO manipulation or to serve further malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and links suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content across various domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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 http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/78694850366.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070af71cf152---42566373493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iphonerepairservice.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/tugodikaperibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n8j0ffgcrfrrlv868qvnb6ighc/sigigari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guineaservicesproviders.com/gsp/files/14909133737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7325aa3c326632b06cdad7b4ecbe7277/94517015232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8180544a96---vurujunonar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52e7791124b8a504d2a16fa2da513560/33627555763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ec31a6184---96069799962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cb6440e4e1---nefijusopafolelevavaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f81f927f47b551492174d2e10dd1cd3/korogaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/soif7a214a510g9qro6b5a3l9a/belalupamivuduxabakiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e19ba47ebec---lupikabedumagodimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d017c2485d---bituperubodavat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-3/20210503192530999296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoodwierty.pl/files/file/biwimizepasusuzikusosufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamexmarket.com/uploads/files/dakupupiwavepakulane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bn8dac0vgmidn8af2bn4u20b43/64874323312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ciuveukbe0khif7fmoo7cfjm11/lumiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c78869abe1d---dasutikiliguvixug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a81db43e5dd---joxuxajit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ff5f950380---negitaputujaleranobiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samnakthodrahassob.com/userfiles/file/nesuworipoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedule-plachty.cz/files/file/16463794649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=blood+oximeter+readingsPDF 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_off00011da0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DA0 16976 bytes
SHA-256: 292d1237cada0915aa7feed3e8af0efaf59d595d69ba8ff15bc0ffe0cf96cc19
font_01_sfnt_off00014a03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A03 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001621a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1621A 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 962d15a088c9e397517236a710e6d243b7465054448df25b3dfab1297a3e0697