Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09c000131ff1287c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-10-01 17:15:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 588e6dc0645e05d7ab0accc0f7b2d050 SHA-1: 54d26126c030798c6b7e4c74f3068bf94bd46a37 SHA-256: 09c000131ff1287c7c1c9bc865480b9efbffdc767686dec9833daa046f5d1779
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised or disposable hosting. The PDF structure itself appears to be a lure, likely intended to trick users into visiting these external links, which could lead to further exploitation or phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://tarnava.eu/user_images/file/11446316838.pdf
    • http://ichieh.tw/uploads/files/202109051910446578.pdf
    • https://aksukartela.com/images_upload/files/85473578188.pdf
    • http://geo-equipe.it/userfiles/files/wafepefejoludavob.pdf
    • http://pkpneu.cz/userfiles/file/mizanadakulegejaxokenilof.pdf
    • https://kominove-centrum.cz/media/files/file/guzosojudurarifijapinewe.pdf
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cfa6cd378c---mukikogabegafufipa.pdf
    • http://dmhu.eu/uploads/uplib/file/90708558275.pdf
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/xuvatirar.pdf
    • http://udaybharat.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61849142394.pdf
    • http://indianspringhomes.com/userfiles/files/70514162293.pdf
    • http://topspeed4wd.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nasafuluximasibam.pdf
    • https://senfina.top/uploads/files/63006721254.pdf
    • http://cuuhoatudong.com/upload/files/34027191950.pdf
    • http://wooshin.kr/uploaded/file/127153947161317ebb728cc.pdf
    • https://apatity.verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12052387486.pdf
    • http://kaus21.com/userData/board/file/nipaf.pdf
    • https://leganordavigliana.com/uploads/file/38849919630.pdf
    • https://firsatoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/novuvabononufivamovixib.pdf
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efnnekrn5gb8pksucglt64gpeh/kenoril.pdf
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cn84hpdbpgghst1noj2lgihjri/warufa.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=the+theory+of+multiple+intelligences+pdf
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138bca47a100---52165109269.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_off0000b323.bin
384174b84194a62846fbaa29c7941bc73f6b1b2661e8fde94752ffc14730af50
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB323 16428 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dcf6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCF6 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f50d.bin
99d184517b40b373d9561cc707ea160b14ef9b90800b068a39a1a1cd5c1f3e01
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF50D 11084 bytes