Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06ed1ba125fefce1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-07-05 11:14:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 914acfc5cdc85caa6bf160869255d8d8 SHA-1: a5c2264f473f66d3306552e13d0f2150d6c3c4b0 SHA-256: 06ed1ba125fefce1d36bb3968b79e0ca6fe3bddda4d24258ef9bdf57784a3242
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, potentially for credential harvesting or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://xn--szabowski-tub.pl/userfiles/file/10365293829.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aihr-iadh.org/uploads/FCK_files/file/vefezifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rm7r8tf7j8pf3aunrspvlodr73/45696293189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografoenricogiampieri.it/userfiles/files/walovufesutenelefejepez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hosvagyok.hu/userfiles/file/zagazabekopiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160bb3450ad95c---wedadevofazabigegeveso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matchedtubes.de/userfiles/file/42949750290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9b0b5f8c8a8ec9bb7293032f0837b24/75198910919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fgosvo.ru/files/files/27321134322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084cb9dbb25b---zebupopudafizipup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jewfri.kr/files/image/files/nafolapivofukobibozame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a19295c5b---85947442579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.demetagras.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607802efef271---dafikajoxine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tomasjelinek.com/img/pub/file/54012142372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a96e5939dd52b65f97fd2ed512e38916/lakiwipos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-20/20210520140218163697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-reutov.ru/upload_picture/file/gotuxesivigixirodef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anupbolivia.com/images/files/basijilagepopinudibebitog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sehersirin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e48dc715a---gopopunewobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.explosivo.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ccf10267041fdd8120bed141aac50c6/511679087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb00ed8796---bitolugiverepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/emlgggic0n3lt2klg8g9op9ens/lodivifaxetutakagaxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://madopin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/32891066427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hashtag.school/userfiles/file/34592809889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=business+analytics+and+business+intelligence+solutions+definitionPDF 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_off0000ec26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC26 18284 bytes
SHA-256: aea25bd288b2b81d0a025305de42f8f2d2ced4c5f9040437f54ac00554c78852
font_01_sfnt_off00011c20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C20 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 0e47aded858ec8ca7d0ea95a71016fd9c1e2ba16f7d092ea2d5c64cc508fb1a6
font_02_sfnt_off0001358a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1358A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1