Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00832121a183a6bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 19:26:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0985c4e0fdbc856c38353249e1dfd831 SHA-1: ad293bb68d2fb026b21e88b1545cb51578b8cc10 SHA-256: 00832121a183a6bb5c271eb2236ed99824ed382a00e0cf5a4b22ed44f82c57b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, designed to redirect users to further malicious content. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics confirms this behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-19/20210519010739143497.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aanugxqi.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wiradibizifavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepaltrekkinginhimalaya.com/assets/userfiles/files/newoxegewixokufofakux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608275f9aacac---5640036029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riosemarescentrodemergulho.com/ckfinder/files/50771886630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wooshin.kr/uploaded/file/10517198686127542bdfd5f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stalbeckers.nl/userfiles/image/file/pevinezutagok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvkumariajnkvv.org/singhania/downloads/file/sijitetumuneminalun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yjccnc.com/upload/files/92279550424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e940781404558ce255cc33030eeafd77/39472915619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/474c782ba1f973da055a0e3e3875c85a/lavixozumitadojagolaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f05020416ff---23983471272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geasit.it/userfiles/files/linufepuvepovakezipoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://world-housing.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39783844506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/bildbank/file/tewisowiwuderutuxenugif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshuka.ps/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77613636254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentdorottyapatika.hu/files/13424747745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210502115929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-premium.com/user_file/files/29994081290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szwygs.com/upload/gotaferuxalolemegeludapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7p3vfknq9oaqtm7kteount1kcv/babapozuwiwokipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stefani.cz/fck/file/bototudur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97fcbabe4f187a42685fed5165b0a499/duwonafupefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608670da1bed1---sawisitafajelasitixuneved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawyermo.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/ropogelisizenamene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agentcctv.com/userfiles/file/muzumobutepujorufojifebud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae6412c30b077aa8dcb81502a547c47b/4065995339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=thorax+anatomy+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000e686.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE686 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 6acac9ef548ee299c0991205448756102bde125e5bace1d0bfb1fda7fcd6259c
font_01_sfnt_off0000febf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEBF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000116d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116D1 17648 bytes
SHA-256: 4f1f9313a3dae76b668e7efe141035bbe5cc276ef5f00267b2b3967ebd96af11