Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0b0f9cb7d770690…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-09-24 09:55:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: fc3ff04e47692fbafb702fe6fc78f624 SHA-1: 4dec9ebf24d55623b6bfdb4433121783e69e5d29 SHA-256: f0b0f9cb7d7706904acee6819a7f68d8e6be9e6de7f2d6181d7a73b867dd5eed
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a URL with 'office 365 outlook mail sign in' in its parameters strongly indicates a phishing lure. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=office+365+outlook+mail+sign+in PDF link annotation
    • http://ruizhishengwu.com/uploadfiles/file/080603084954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--oy2b19v1mb1yi.com/userfiles/file/nojuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147947b7cc41---31497515096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c4034db67d---28592840615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/35116107026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patanamachine.com/imgUpload/files/zipogav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://costanzolegal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vojarifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22658258db1b548275f15bfe21a09682/nugatakuvufifibemuvedalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spheresignal.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/95534914717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protok.pro/upload/files/91303313017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://espiber.cl/images/uploadedimages/file/55083907370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelci.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jiwuparodegasijad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tideandtigers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xafafexotatatotez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntpuvoice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42836123720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamalight.net/business_school/uploads/file/61127959205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluebiz.kr/userData/board/file/mumonunezuzezukurap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/89604398250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekhoron21.mn/uploads/files/99997704626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcc-sa.com/motakamel/Ups/files/5014656388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evpltravel.com/xv_image/file/gojapufefivabilaxomej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614cc5f58a73b---57409385834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mhreng.com/userfiles/file/36734815208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tea-ra.com/user_data/upload/save_image/files/ruzixukakunurokebanejezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theurbanbazzaar.com/userfiles/file/vuzajawidivavamag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stillwaiting.org/userfiles/file/78626553792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.binghan.my/userfiles/file/75507063479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ce17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE17 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e629.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE629 17400 bytes
SHA-256: f6357be2fba82eca559abe7f49b4ba8be4e5d81f9cc3456ac84b6ff723c8a1b9
font_02_sfnt_off0001134f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1134F 11272 bytes
SHA-256: 55da5ff4d250819a58b0dd8d780d623d52cfbf9296572a13dfbe6d9276110130