Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 073e15b29c0c6edd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-08-18 20:07:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 63974c5aad69a76f251d348ed8fb8136 SHA-1: 345a282135d03cc5ea5c20176f6a6a08119c34e6 SHA-256: 073e15b29c0c6edd7231766482940388f2a85bb77b0d785f66057c75fa47b5d5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically indicating phishing and trojan activity. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+foundation+of+psychoanalytic+theory PDF link annotation
    • http://belv.ru/userfiles/file/46678552802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niezapominajkowo.eu/userfiles/file/xudivutuxisal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deep2001.com/images/library/File/78731284911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartgallery.com/clientMedia/file/5016031618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa2edcf1d3---97290054593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://economiadecomunion.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12964328821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d31453203---83905552867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicodavico.eu/userfiles/files/mulimotosanadaguvokunajab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiuruvedenlukio.fi/tiedostot/file/xodadosonuwezurapenup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivo-mebel.ru/upload/file/bewopafituxusalekuwejali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aadq3ae7aa5k.xn--p1ai/upload/file/tufuluvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cropscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/63584887490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083409587c5c---37799076227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karinbentum.nl/uploads/file/44229681411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapikowski.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/dudanoliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travisreunion.com/clients/1/1d/1d9c560ef9ee6310b862f4c9d288d7bd/File/1372865315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vg4q6j1fg6vdd8p1qi6lspdf5a/vemuwibokezafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.com/images/blog//file/romija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spc1962reunion.com/clients/c/c5/c535eb5d361035e84cedf1152ec4da8f/File/muzugafovawuzotubolig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r1bla0akd4nl85j9t6fak1vhp1/17849480813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc1b9dbc197---42876955563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.channeloflove.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24297125629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edinburghpools.com/contents//files/70428106561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/sonavora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ustunbilgisayar.com/userfiles/files/motuditelun.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_off0000dff7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFF7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f809.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF809 16868 bytes
SHA-256: 2cda98e4839f827e723fe8e7d1a349aa120d151c1ed1d82be1fa0d0e5fb2bc66
font_02_sfnt_off00012403.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12403 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 28c98bc91ba426593209050ba7b23ff4602f32d9e2edc57afda4e159fd4be619