Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06d45e4ca24b5819…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-09-20 15:58:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 3dbbab2c1fce20efa61f4523d2ed4ea7 SHA-1: da790e8dfd4b262291dd0e086d5be88d495970f1 SHA-256: 06d45e4ca24b581927ef1ed24c2156fcaa38fcacd8850c0540475807651c5e38
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the PDF structure indicate a likely intent to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7258

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=war+of+spells+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://lonniestireandauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/89992624869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengatetaichiqigong.com/userfiles/file/relavibanovesazabol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarauwerdaenzn.nl/userfiles/file/68466832624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandioso.asia/editor_upload_image/file/warikupatuviloxitizufeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3gr-group.com/ci/userfiles/files/dubojedojuletim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arenabilardo.com/data/_files/xemopigolopedune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fdff0e14ca---34917085195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasationtravellers.com/root/FCKeditor/file/12811627394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b186fe49d96e135478013df49425cec/76959202107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geomanteia.com/userfiles/files/kemifozuwetuxavasogivig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73170ebfd770b88f9993d8566cfe0403/73493126208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakov.hu/_user/file/14540356110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazhonghua1688.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84800529311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbwingslynnhaven.com/uploads/files/60556752379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01763817c9306c4ccddc89ea2e063811/tivalemekatuxifulaliwik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensjonatagat.pl/userfiles/file/29794741857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbe7a907228051e1ef7bcfbd0c0cdcf6/zokuwulevodawesowuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prota.ru/upload/files/juzidogadarotijez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://starfoil-mail.nl/uploads/wysiwyg/15631201004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/88292599112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imobiliariaimperio.com/files/files/66858341698.pdfIn 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_off0000b9a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9A2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1B9 10452 bytes
SHA-256: ebd54420a77f90626805f751c807892b5ec440cefb35c85106e5587546b8ef3e
font_02_sfnt_off0000e973.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE973 16512 bytes
SHA-256: 42f37ff981d3ff4258a248c3d25bde02e43c66dd1d9aa3967274bb93709ff5dd