Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b0628172a1ed21d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-17 07:56:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a83c6c1b3fd773ebf1928d6037264932 SHA-1: 01559b8d989fb18d8d777b683593cb06f853621f SHA-256: 0b0628172a1ed21db9bbe668bbb5fdce55eb7cb503130469c456a0c4a4f53276
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple external URI heuristics and link farm indicators reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=grammar+worksheets+pdf
    • https://hotelexpert.ro/uploads/files/57039349803.pdf
    • https://basisnomor.com/contents/files/jolosinovo.pdf
    • http://snft.ro/media/file/74614150047.pdf
    • http://www.rodnolespropertymanagement.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/75722707357.pdf
    • http://ceroki.com/image/files/ropukenufipuxujivibejeze.pdf
    • http://tamtamphat.com/upload/files/dipegorunizejig.pdf
    • http://mamaskitchenorder.com/uploads/files/14270354772.pdf
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ced80ceb97---rexezumifafipukevijafus.pdf
    • https://marupyara.com/fotos/userfiles/file/52961815782.pdf
    • https://emotionalgift.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97831386846.pdf
    • http://tnslib.net/userfiles/files/6268716891.pdf
    • http://newgatedesign.com/Images_upload/files/xiretavigezeloro.pdf
    • https://prevodi-plovdiv.com/userfiles/file/49164199759.pdf
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f45771c5d9e00b0ec2c8cf9026bf19e/35768178064.pdf
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137a2b8884b6---ripikakitazokewenixil.pdf
    • https://pyccenter.com/images/Upload/file/fifanonagorirozodejukivex.pdf
    • http://ubestsports.com/imager/files/20210911043527.pdf
    • https://maximatrimony.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60459795682.pdf
    • https://nulifeus.com/~nulife/userfiles/file/45048016248.pdf
    • http://gocep.org/data/userfiles/files/mijegorutoxilejatixasa.pdf
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/601759b5ebb2b904a5a9d5c500ed94f0/15533116935.pdf
    • http://zsdbiopharm.com/upload/files/1137431074.pdf
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/40419044450.pdf
    • http://dui-antidote.net/images/userfiles/file/1630165246.pdf
    • http://sitoad.com/bbqjoekey/files/202109110630553415.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_off0000de81.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE81 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f693.bin
770ca093e5fa41fbb98c668de5212028a25661d1996edc7902c73ec08faffd3a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF693 17632 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001240b.bin
b1c791f33922206a6c7f19d051d4c4d438a1c4f3fad6cfeed2980e574a66fac6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1240B 10740 bytes