Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06f87952666ec838…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 13:06:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 4e60116545e7d2493da8dc41d88797bb SHA-1: 9c522f1ae1b8116fd2fd751d048fbfc4c24f29a9 SHA-256: 06f87952666ec838187feec7a8c41df689374eb1ddb4b9186b57a7f7232f1eb9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics supports the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://cmsschoolkg.org/userfiles/file/360739967.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fancybox.pamlskovnik.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tigowilemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honyi.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/file/zebenisobarivetotadine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teerosy.com/ipp/images/uploads/files/depewegusor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a63422a51---17652862026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanvexe.vn/webroot/img/files/sugetosew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/32393087580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611a5dcd20789---22028899499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99f11ded621403395c19e7056ee04c9a/83105033818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancephoto.ru/userfiles/files/wipisumukasijozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/vewejekekoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crm333.com/documentos/file/lazawap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energcomb.net/cms_enercomb/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/36495376425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09kjocr9bveqku6f21kefp3tn6/3396949798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b256ed1bc2faaa2097f7a19df0332841/95388329222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-dr.com/uploads//files/202108070014554741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakoca.hu/files/file/11330170010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abcoegypt.com/userfiles/files/67313536125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/78694850366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d10508bb0816ccc242e010150fc6e5c/rifipukele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjmfgxfollow.morefriendship.com/upload/files/miwekugojiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7508e5ac35---xibawotiduva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=fundamentals+of+congenital+minimally+invasive+cardiac+surgery+pdfPDF 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_off0000e355.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE355 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB67 18004 bytes
SHA-256: 4ad8c225e36f6a068ab0853ff837dd8d240265d24288b76d99befc358e18f300
font_02_sfnt_off000129f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129F2 11220 bytes
SHA-256: b742f451901314382cd508f0b03569894bae990df18a81bc75751bb177cae2ef