Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c19a40349dcb690…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-09-16 20:10:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a3210608239167f0e25ad664bd2eb86c SHA-1: 604848278461b4874ff378e5fca3462a481e8ae9 SHA-256: 0c19a40349dcb6904f20f8d31d7543632aec98c5fd26946e31a92b9bda80374b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=profile+photo+viewer+for+instagram+download PDF link annotation
    • http://studio-rivetti.it/userfiles/files/zefekedilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tdemo.order-pro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83341240784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maimungkorn.com/UserFiles/file/vimadezipimizenejugotaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138fc32e290c---90094351513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bfull.ru/uploads/files/40852865186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/bewuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fultoys.com/userfiles/71435562703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vasutaszeneiskola.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/binewadumiroxevute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chenruichem.com/upload/files/gevixopeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanruou.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/jeruxevobegovirev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fb8304710e5a849c0e1ce4c5691862e/57117648955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inbiosa.eu/static/cfiles/files/589213415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ijdssymposium.eu/upload/gurafudotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanharteyoga.nl/uploads/files/95877057703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investinwielkopolska.pl/application/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xawapifunenabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tcf.gov.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xojotupopirisuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korsorlampang.net/user_img/files/bazukowisorojosobuzarefuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dusunceokulu.net/resimler/files/90734816083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/auej0sqbaaik0fph25aj6ctglo/wawusirumaxafekep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikosdimos.gr/userfiles/file/dorog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rux-thai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mufuvazanevetelija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k892s4i5khoki1pti8cncpf182/bejabukozapulanode.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_off0000b5d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5D5 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 6f65383e078cdff265059f13d46c42cfbee065a745d92984d65c36541fb1edfc
font_01_sfnt_off0000deec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEEC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f703.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF703 11100 bytes
SHA-256: 247c494bba9acb6025768556bbefecaa056ff5c771a8148c3c6c02b130cb17ab