Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c314dbeb824bcf3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.3 KB Created: 2021-09-20 01:27:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: cca8d2f288bc5f9ee309121a06b700ba SHA-1: 8e34e94b5b867995cde36491a569674f8adb949e SHA-256: 0c314dbeb824bcf3f18b027a39191cfd01a973978b761052bd463d9b98125f70
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing 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 for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of urgency lures further supports a social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=plex+media+server+android+free PDF link annotation
    • http://chinalabware.es/d/files/guvotevelaresukaxofobik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.su/userfiles/files/jabarinuvevejoretu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/xevaxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2r-auto.com/uploadfiles/file/2021090711575873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cee1968.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37141632288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://27derajat.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/74316089545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ojchamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kedupotisezejizegir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomehl.com/images/content/files/15766366657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbnjl.com/userfiles/files/zinenib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/upload/save_image/files/fimapaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viktorina.ledoritulys.lt/files/22222831544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hatinhjobs.com/upload/files/73674621192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sangtaoad.com/uploads/userfiles/file/73398522141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ip-malkov.ru/uploads/files/sejanomoline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rehahomecare.com/upload/editor/files/jibotebuxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recviem.ru/img/upload/rarilakinopuzajaxazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cobrawire.com/userfiles/files/rekanoset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/35245220641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0df168ccb6e8ba0461cf894183eb0519/28417340265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/24069535833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wirheiraten.de/images/file/raxorisuxuvopibaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2ea39afebdbb6c2755440fc31e50654/20253917766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c03df5e7e6---roresimifozarapisaxotupem.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eee0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEE0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106F1 16500 bytes
SHA-256: b4eaa991205ed3478f90113da00f6ae4f7adf2a99e7d6fd41aefb8e9da8019c6
font_02_sfnt_off00011de9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DE9 24624 bytes
SHA-256: 652a6e9b480052477f74cbb14cb0be75ab4bbbf58a8da3667cd22343dadcaf00
font_03_sfnt_off00015d87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15D87 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 7f8966960a71a779b8bdd9e02990bfd016b0ccae701b1966fe829ecc4842b0be