Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a68503c87ca5d9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 06:09:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 7de618dcb11e6d19d5a958c64a405fc8 SHA-1: 2632debc91628a79a14297ab41597a9f1e44009e SHA-256: 0a68503c87ca5d9bfabb0927a8bc16c89ef732051aeb570a1bec02587059e41a
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 pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs, while numerous, do not provide a clear second-stage payload, but their nature strongly suggests malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://xn--krmer-dnnebacke-1kb72b.de/files/file/67400952366.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bensonlandscape.com/editorData/file/14723971574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etre-belle.su/images/file/xenaketapomitulonelef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lizhechem.com/upload/files/vapinomitaxixutubik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guanzhuli.com/userfiles/file/53899962575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linpus.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/dinifegunam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f97717c17---disejetagamejofigojawizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtecommerce.it/public/news/file/rufaboxafamam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jacsonsfurniture.com/userfiles/file/bubexajesituguxomugog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pm4ta5lt8pnfrumdjpg9nnrjvt/tokizixujukobagijubuzufad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rm-centr.ru/uploads/file/60617335387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheinmotel.com/userfiles/file/15558586721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://truhlarstvisollner.cz/data/file/61303635662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3g4vgcva3kh2s4q4g6hipecbo2/55431646262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acdc03a2d912d727b0859d32dbcc5689/korizojupafugotilonofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff0b3948a9dad33741cc98b1cf515b09/gubamirilitezanibod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-odincovo.ru/upload_picture/file/gugevugif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d5iojfok3nc2verqnu8c63ite/55134408414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greddy.com/admin/common/ckfinder/userfiles/File/boxozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/erc6pgqpquvt7u2pn99so2rhk3/74575521606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e4f5d5c67a---99724654921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16116ab1def0ec---nebexeramerafilizudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092186b52e39---25696930963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dominopark.pl/public/upload/ckfinder//userfiles/files/fakivutewiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=crdi+engine+technology+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_off0000bf05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF05 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 514a9186b40cb1ffef8934a2b4334d0a5719fde076ee3598528a59fec706a57a
font_01_sfnt_off0000d753.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD753 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF65 16560 bytes
SHA-256: b4965e51f51bbe8f49719994a223cf9447e01e5a76f147d42975eb5d58732b9d