Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00d2364a4c84b912…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-10 14:10:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: dfb3423a29d54dfe558dd41bbe8f98f5 SHA-1: c0487b70e0a92c2460a7dbd607e46cc8ec45da39 SHA-256: 00d2364a4c84b912c864d58ff8c3a250bb144b41bcb5f7f62a31677d8e1c1dad
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://casier-a-bouteilles.com/file/79635202462.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ecolservizinettuno.com/userfiles/files/palokedoxarimij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthimaycafe.vn/uploads/file/25463728452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1631189331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topup-fight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xamabade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega-treid.com/userfiles/files/68076922327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labonscafe.com/userfiles/61704241729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aicpwdosaeast.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zubosokakudoxofovim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fanaf.org/article_ressources/file/lisegadoxesejivixuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bronia.org/userfiles/file/17273893804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesei.com/In PDF document text
    • http://vietdubai.com/userfiles/file/43358028596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3tro6qotj79cjhdte5a2ahndt5/74402587944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compufoxmail.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/userfiles/file/juzafopowufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carzip.biz/files/uploads/files/61600118245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pbg0atl5i8s6j98c5uek8l8r48/54438263969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrostroi-proekt.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93770565888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yibetter.com/data/files/xovavofufubaxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipai-bg.eu/img/file/52632955755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130146c44f0f---75453259263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://familienbilstrup.dk/userfiles/file/2484941233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://messtores.ca/fck_user_files/file/62604823007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hacsbathtarntaran.org/~/userfiles/file/dinagetipifosesupoxirivit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://placidlakes.com/larpm/uploads/file/47838132326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laser-piskovani.cz/democms/userfiles/file/48528707436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellissi.org/userfiles/files/zigiwepifawutamalowumeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=buscar+claves+wifi+androidPDF 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_off0000dc06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC06 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f418.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF418 19072 bytes
SHA-256: fd9f4f8453a3692cb63974fc4e23d671d3e943fd21e0887871c239f97206ca01
font_02_sfnt_off000125d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125D0 10676 bytes
SHA-256: a0e0c7dd7733ac5637c990c660628a3076ddbdbd9d6723e38849c84d3b73baf5