Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b85def6f963c18c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 08:52:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 6270621db3900c151ac210a9731ec8f3 SHA-1: 5e5ab1bab6ca64c85ca580e45aaf144e9fd9ee41 SHA-256: 0b85def6f963c18c7d22351f954387f8c8bd10f56cfba010db7ccf3f91356759
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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 ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the PDF structure suggest it's intended to lure users to malicious sites, aligning with spearphishing tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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 https://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=define+media+literacy+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://skyzoan.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/18666897033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurveda-shiatsu-qigong-nice.com/upload/files/23480488632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurishupally.org/userfiles/file/fikat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videotour24.com/data/fckupload/file/43468496251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6lggturj621piuq4md9g6pghm/22715185444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1night2daytour.com/ckupload/files/5006778147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insight-assessment.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22760388775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentimresiklos.hu/upload/file/79244675414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/55927820172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carlaschroyen.com/content_docs/18832695106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608554a128ac5---86005987566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redactron.com/userfiles/file/45350847439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rainbowfurnitures.com/files/files/sipezivajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db3799449e9---36942133798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swagath.co/new/ckfinder/userfiles/files/garotemubetudefugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpspcb.com/uploads/files/zizobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ks-zahnarztpraxis.de/upload/files/tisekowafofitogameguzab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merrygoldholidays.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/popagejajobiforu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasici-pristroje-eshop.cz/files/file/bebejazadek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b091eb2f08b8bf3f50df366cf9803f0c/5197991106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garmagostaran.com/Upload/file/2407501134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinruily.com/UploadFile/file/20210908004832017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acavacecio.it/userfiles/files/gesunaduvitapud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuakeobinhduong.com/upload/files/58986323895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00010f0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F0F 18136 bytes
SHA-256: 773ac2660c05686075b77b8c8f5265882818904e641b50c166a1e9c8734ecdb9
font_01_sfnt_off00013e33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E33 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001564a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1564A 10608 bytes
SHA-256: e1a349f97089f90a9a7d19e2dc5f355ce627a42381f402ade7415520d8f551f7

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