Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0530c2ed09a72784…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 22:53:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: f2fcce0acea9d1440ebcefd571b38bf5 SHA-1: 243cc5037c827840104b26d07251a3abbadfb30b SHA-256: 0530c2ed09a72784a5aca97654623940e854b9dea12c40e49284e0fd03e3b937
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards an attempt to exploit users through external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+android+base+building+games PDF link annotation
    • http://gps-ambroisie.com/ressource/site-image/files/19524998510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://01host.ru/userfiles/files/99950531070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shiokuda1.com/contents/files/felarit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiji.pgo.tw/pic/uploads/files/gozazusuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avphunter.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vabovovebujixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vipbeachhouse.com/uploads/editor/file/benatamoxovojutujades.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161370daf75b70---febexibokuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebel-moscow.com/content/xuploadimages/file/mukigivofuxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trongtrucsolution.com/uploads/files/xelutenixinomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chulintemple.house-well.com/CKEdit/upload/files/nupowabeboga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135133d0c826---90528477205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ji-tien.com/userfiles/file/wavugupibetoturadida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ouhkpthaa.org/userfiles/fizunofiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ez-surveying.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/33980065747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scuolascifondocortinadolomiti.it/userfiles/files/26817376475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doingthing.com/downloads/blog/geust/files/83946800038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30f542f45725fb81cc7981e314e8c1ec/64658874901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oris-am.com/editor_up/pavugutabimejeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csa.china-led.net/static/editor/ckeditor/ckfinder/upfile/files/84379592589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escritacontabilidade.net/fotos/news/file/nojed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/madopukalobuwofer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netcsemege.elelmiszer-hazhozszallitas.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61808757166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sfipl.in/userfiles/file/nadagojosukibedu.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_off0000f01c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF01C 16972 bytes
SHA-256: 4638d450724a283ca7df0f45469917995e2126255063f4d4d9e2beb92d2b838a
font_01_sfnt_off00011b3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B3C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013353.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13353 10884 bytes
SHA-256: b51ac740a6ca3b9eb47332e32b81794c0ca529038417a5432d04bf59df604342