Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a6bd0e79b836284…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.6 KB Created: 2021-06-18 10:03:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 81a6e025d0edbfb8dea0834a34ebef0f SHA-1: ffd3dc5bc3a1ecc1046715e04fc1c52065f86835 SHA-256: 0a6bd0e79b83628448609aca9d292b0cb7d44d3e93591a02599e0f65657e462b
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 compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URI and link farm heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-4/20210604151946699253.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rubin2000-distribuitorshop.ro/userfiles/file/69312418007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f14bf1ab099bb18216aebc5ea03c5a4e/gubajumut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridaholidayplanner.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/080b373859bfed7fb4ac5330faeed1f4/kivexotapuvanonofoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theatresaucinema.fr/uploads/file/66046586206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/666a82463466eff741265892ac04d23a/revitatusutarewiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608624d1ca440---39906033132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb5c9bca13c---nujekanasujoximog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ktkg1clubmuugb7i7s1ht18lf0/minaged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ic2j0mkq0p0jgfpao78m53gcbi/88878477673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984adc2e970---21194470638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmic-kino.ru/sadm_files/garujuputi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietxetai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qub6rhfd6k8op65o42fj8bat49/wupug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dharmapremipariwar.org/userfiles/file/86158018129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodcomputers.ro/2664/uploads/48126017713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d88e3fa88---87160115553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=ferdinand+p+beer+mechanics+of+materialsPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dedb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEDB 1656 bytes
SHA-256: f3a9be0d2c6be3ce9e5ffe16ad90346855480183d7516dbf8ef9fbd8594f1299
font_01_sfnt_off0000e72b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE72B 5276 bytes
SHA-256: 1e999c5e8677afc64e314eba63142f8812603f1152525fa8c2184f65d4930e42
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8D6 2256 bytes
SHA-256: cc9f7a96895df819b4c3acdfe77e8643f014d95ab9586528942f4855c864fe28
font_03_sfnt_off0001025b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1025B 4640 bytes
SHA-256: 90ffbffb8ee76e29a5035a0a5f8142e191268f78a61abbeaa7196508693369b0
font_04_sfnt_off00010efe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EFE 12452 bytes
SHA-256: fad9ed2c67ebbeb7a660ef0886ed6b44fc83f09c4952ca5c2bbabd7b866b7813
font_05_sfnt_off0001397e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1397E 16548 bytes
SHA-256: 569b73f965e4edd202bd5b147228be71cf58be4cd74f7d138c1d3fd9f0eab53c
font_06_sfnt_off00014fd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14FD9 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3