Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0786c545f55f1cd0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-05 02:38:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9a545e317d5e4cb39ef116579d34ac86 SHA-1: f17c9177d6662f41cb2de82b070efd13aa769f24 SHA-256: 0786c545f55f1cd04a67419b869ab5b1bd0be87a8cb881f20fe82f8e777e8999
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests the document is designed to be a link farm, potentially for SEO poisoning or directing users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=steam+clean+oven+feature
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/mobol.pdf
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607433e435fb3---xemudutilejixega.pdf
    • https://aplusadvance.com/naver_editor/data/file/20218736846.pdf
    • http://banphimchuot.com/userfiles/file/88643499051.pdf
    • http://poltinik.ru/userfiles/file/tewapesomizolo.pdf
    • http://studioboscono.it/userfiles/files/71567907425.pdf
    • https://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/14503142511.pdf
    • http://erex.hu/upload/file/vularizipefobikenire.pdf
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160986811c9516---53353310250.pdf
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hp4s5spap9qr5jubd14rvblp8m/muxabapi.pdf
    • http://anatolianlgs.com/userfiles/file/25745658707.pdf
    • https://peterdegendt.be/file/givusenanere.pdf
    • https://superchills.com/userfiles/file/taximojegesowipodinojuj.pdf
    • http://alrehabourhome.com/userfiles/files/jitunadu.pdf
    • https://kimtuong.vn/isc/public/files/fckupload/file/zanenonibomarizaxata.pdf
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b942e4b8026---segukufuwizozeniwalebofi.pdf
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099e4bf5d0ba---26955551628.pdf
    • https://nepalimodelagency.com/userfiles/file/91778395115.pdf
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61fb658f88a715aec28663d841389b69/99582580777.pdf
    • http://ithaca1960.com/clients/8/87/874e400c25abfb160fd1c0cf9913fcd0/File/bakojubavezarip.pdf
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2fb0c907ce---19127761516.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eba4.bin
a592c70763e22e6d34052534016a12900af17edd64ea8515e6d57fdb20a7ad10
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBA4 10476 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010380.bin
900bafc177542917d32c8719fb3486d0016b228420edc9a7250efe5603799b93
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10380 16924 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012f9b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F9B 16792 bytes