Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0112e156c2d70e62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-21 03:51:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 29a2a0ebed458882125452d2754c5151 SHA-1: 26fb06a95de7a8925eafb3abc339e5f00cb6d4f2 SHA-256: 0112e156c2d70e62750ebde8b812de24a8fb3c5ebade3c63daf8055391a17996
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these external links. The presence of multiple external links and the nature of the hosting domains support the classification as a link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 https://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=positive+words+beginning+with+r+to+describe+someone
    • http://ipost.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vafozevafitelokuveru.pdf
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f32a6275605411d894c620839c972ab8/91326372697.pdf
    • http://annabarons.lv/files/files/82500964536.pdf
    • https://zibarajabi.com/cache/fck_files/file/98814185411.pdf
    • http://museodegliarazzimarsala.com/userfiles/files/tilamezunokarejawobiz.pdf
    • http://opusbiz.kr/data/editor/file/11889948276148dcc31d1bf.pdf
    • https://belitour.ir/basefile/belitourir/files/21938806730.pdf
    • http://asja-doll.ru/userfiles/file/nukerogatofanajokovipon.pdf
    • https://studiecarriere.it/uploads/file/masamepepokonasonuju.pdf
    • http://drivingtesttips.ie/fckeditor/userfiles/file/xaviworepugetepatafuj.pdf
    • http://chia4kids.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37186714147.pdf
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33edf77969edb26a14ee5ed658b6db52/57615826115.pdf
    • http://interroadholland.nl/userfiles/file/60325612562.pdf
    • http://aviatechinform.ru/sadm_files/duzewovogomivevu.pdf
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161475cf67de8a---gikobivabademaw.pdf
    • https://10playsolutions.com/clients/softklk/documents/_articles_/file/zigifevu.pdf
    • https://pmsp-me.com/userfiles/files/dimasujoxulosudeze.pdf
    • http://banglatalkies.com/dynamic-images/cms/file/kepibag.pdf
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nk3qj8r90tjito06hldj0vofn5/22122431413.pdf
    • http://fecirturizm.com/resimler/files/xukujibibokoperudomaf.pdf
    • http://nenorm.com/files/files/20982613486.pdf
    • http://www.css-jp.com/upfile/files/2021/09/11/86184265441.pdf
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145461dc543a---39868816580.pdf
    • http://ozdermusavirlik.net/userfiles/file/94555784271.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dc73.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC73 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f485.bin
5f6e7a8c9f608f7e741e4742e6bf5e34e8ad7ba4e7362432d85927889091b7be
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF485 17248 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012096.bin
ec37e03f802bae416584e5c5e297ff7e8c3e78b8064229aa438ca01f7155a216
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12096 10904 bytes