Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a91808944080263…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-15 22:00:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: eabdb585a33c243ef1102282b9ab2307 SHA-1: be0a34d3ac197a6c7fd61d8e3657e8b2935b02ea SHA-256: 0a918089440802635653f6265e69189f982440f54ee8f82f98df122fd9871ea1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://tjsijiqing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2021/0912/7167fd7b2736662fc80c967675956cde.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ikorti-iao.com/userfiles/files/lesopewaborifibed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loca-granderoue-montaletang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17701063124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceramicaartisticamarsalese.it/userfiles/files/poxevosomuralaruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2b9ab48660b82ef0ddde376161f400a/93908090497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613caa794e665---46881881121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://permanentnimakeup-brno.cz/userfiles/files/6475093883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/19682101713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfc063cfa75fe68e8ca924a4c7c2d13c/vadijimakisatawodekan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zsmnowakowski.pl/userfiles/file/tafos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olymp-kiev.com/temp/fckeditor/file/58436988591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herve-coiffure.ci/files/24639729424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://florerialafloresta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bejezuzab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hermanosvalerorecio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kilisizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyozenemeryville.com/uploads/files/24434874964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laboratoriologos.it/userfiles/files/20390003113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divanich96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xoduwibazav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adec-interiors.net/Uploads/file/xigugunaxemevuruje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimcert.org/E/file/jamabumabawufexutiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1-champagne.com/blog_images/blog_/file/lifogokifilovegixoponew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngdongtec.com/userfiles/file/12783439926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbcom.fr/ressource/site-image/files/5660064634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geologicatoscana.eu/userfiles/files/sofabut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watertorens.nl/userfiles/file/23929156722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b5b0a46bcb---52863174437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=screen+mirroring+android+to+pc+using+usbPDF 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_off0000d3e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3E7 17852 bytes
SHA-256: fabc6d8f0a813e367c89d1fcd78899d9b3140eb0822b6f1cb7d3b359a27593e4
font_01_sfnt_off000101ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101EA 11128 bytes
SHA-256: 549c7a3f1ba700d247da686d4931be1907bba889de1fb15d1a685b70c9e16024
font_02_sfnt_off00011b71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B71 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1