Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07c694f0eb78ae04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.0 KB Created: 2021-08-31 01:27:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: f9e8c09b9e55af90c942a248fa30be6d SHA-1: a59f39d07ef6842b7a3d5617637d605cc2aa1ca2 SHA-256: 07c694f0eb78ae046a6d969d0ee011d2b61a0c25194591588371251dded7451a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to domains identified as compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://khaskhaan.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/5033919454.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://yz-yongzhong.com/upfiles/editor/files/ravejadopevexufikexit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiangka.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94930805223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa4005884cf---lulinepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geostudio.eu/userfiles/files/zakuzuwir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f923af56e7dcef8f61d41ca5a62c8630/92035503123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://systematix.pl/userfiles/file/39650791531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160967416b31ea---92900895490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df1e02821d---batejikawipazaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertoantoniz.com/resources/original/file/42330806618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607198e22ecd0---38876825333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6a6d82748c---kewejatikogidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://networkinglikepro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tazavum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hemoroidklinigi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb70e09608---kovik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/39164956023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clove7.com/userfiles/file/mutejilewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd1fe8afb14---susupemubevavilodig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8b2a577c91---77009149943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maconlux.lu/userfiles/files/basokamuwurapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c718a70235e5cc798f18126b710adf27/suserufakamivotapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cbb539b9502dde73dc2da22ab4970b6/37652038793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3e9bf8c570---40188513632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=business+english+handbook+advanced+audio+downloadPDF 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_off00010313.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10313 10988 bytes
SHA-256: b0bae86ae01d62997d750c137b12c4b212fe60572dcab1832400e914b3d04dc9
font_01_sfnt_off00011c5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C5A 20880 bytes
SHA-256: e39748840f4e378ca0ef3f6f18911e4d0f484869e36026a0fbe64212b715aeaf
font_02_sfnt_off0001516d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1516D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1