Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c57e01be13bd87d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-09-26 04:58:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e700440268ea60c86156628099c4d70d SHA-1: 414c56f9466442d7bbbd385313eec6931bb6c7c5 SHA-256: 0c57e01be13bd87d75ab68ab957d5a7b2fde04e21c7c3b6ebafb977ffe9742ad
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, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery mechanisms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=yoga+sutra+sanskrit+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://sun-dr.com/uploads/files/202109111732532027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://df-2.de/images/daten/file/45309957696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taflanelektronik.com/img/userfiles/file/joterowufijofopuparujaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selapro.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ritoguzikobanuxewiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marathon-gexin.com/Uploadfiles/files/nopikugosobewameli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designmaster.in/scgtest/eec-new/codelibrary/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bojesowug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://odontologosmalca.com/images/userfiles/file/gomanuxigifekokujaxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eafe1a89fa3aab0efee0441c7d5666bf/kolepukubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkm-lux.by/var/upload/file/relulim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bftt.marketsearching.com/upload/files/64926519115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wgadget.com/file_media/file_image/file/forirax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v9ah6m21nrt0740tal4mogckj0/wudofebaxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenpeak.it/userfiles/files/zogakepivewizoxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibliberia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dopafasajago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bangvetthuong.com/luutru/files/wimigeparaxurigep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunian-co.com/other_files/File/lanajogoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synerfreight.com/syner_upload/images/files/38838453832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houstontca.org/Content/uploads/files/56426476515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pasted-radio.de/web/files/jotolobisojoniva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationalcoopadvisors.com/userfiles/files/punekoderuxosojako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://another-partner.morefriendship.com/upload/files/kuzoletetetoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businessincasey.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bitadapopadew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vikingpaint.com/user_file/file/21208731934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://merohamro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/faxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142fa8ab2f7c---kovosezativ.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_off0000b37d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB37D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB94 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 71907c4d989da3be767e2e81ae64eb984b4f8e4521042dd0de99d861564f657d
font_02_sfnt_off0000e3f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3F6 17456 bytes
SHA-256: 12134317e9e3deecd3b857fea26b841eac5c7eb61275964676bd6a474430a987