Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0b903a31320168c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-09-11 22:30:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d1f4ac012d02fee1e6b509954a1333c5 SHA-1: 709563e56b2f72a8c91c05f5ab1e64023a51fd41 SHA-256: f0b903a31320168ce87e471e46af3d20e957fe799925111f736a99a6f3edddc1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute traffic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. The presence of 'tentacle locker apk' in one URL suggests a potential lure for Android malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://vuason.vn/upload/files/92692058258.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://otoozevran.com/resimler/files/83840787723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepaltrekkinginhimalaya.com/assets/userfiles/files/molurawisojalixefaxarore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polipack.ru/content/file/87530817868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pyroglobal.sk/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/32626682510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pearproperties.in/userfiles/file/55718268549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a6bf7721a3aba5da383c34e32899df5/fafewunonapin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/ragimifefuwave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.be/userfiles/file/24849730733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilalyapidekorasyon.com/userfiles/file/44695208409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.groupementpecheduloir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43140231341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosconi.net/userfiles/file/fapovapufoxudumodamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/77691033755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catequesisnavarra.org/guiarte_userfiles/files/22412511038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilsogno-bomboniere.com/userfiles/files/barosaruranisipanoruzon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolnoslaskialarmsmogowy.pl/imgturysta/files/tafokawilodog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bedandbreakfastchia.it/userfiles/file/benitiwatuxujixuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161375f63ed8cd---46596038035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stomerijindex.nl/images/uploads/20022981273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7d0d0b70da6525017608b21dddbbaab/10246850507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huichem.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12092478554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madiagranitosilano.it/userfiles/files/fetit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongshengchem.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuweme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giraffeng.net/infodaily/gen-ckfinder/userfiles/files/92044521463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eng.sut.ac.th/tce/2016/administrator/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pawuvivujalerakomekan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=tentacle+locker+apk+for+android+latest+versionPDF 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_off0000c929.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC929 10736 bytes
SHA-256: a6b4795ce1fb6888b5308a0f4acb036646f4defe13a1abc5f55f077ec633da9f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1FE 18740 bytes
SHA-256: c72b94a195ad1d281c17b6894bbf33f4eb19609b9eddd9094468f1d8d2416374
font_02_sfnt_off000112a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112A6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1