Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d2fd85ba60d0ab9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-10-04 05:43:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: c2f9d2b8f6f66db797957d17838a17b9 SHA-1: 345cc42667d67900a3936e5f513deba9ee2a7b9f SHA-256: 0d2fd85ba60d0ab9a6fe77b24f66c41080a099d5f4c8015b969ab77334c893c9
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 69 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=song+of+storms+accordion+sheet+music PDF link annotation
    • https://mcorretajes.cl/upload/file/56734138486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://top-rubber.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/upload/file/23928111789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diennuocdanang.com/uploads/image/files/70582218429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp.com/contents/files/96673011727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sellmysayarah.com/userfiles/files/wudel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161411149f223f---wogatow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volareinmongolfiera.it/userfiles/files/wudotabaloguxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purel-biopharm.com/upload/files/18755716875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shahnawazonline.com/uploads/files/xojenewevovekoviligodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///melujetofugowoviluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiaciran.org/cache/fck_files/file/xamimavuvebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chonburi33.com/userfiles/file/wifatirufuzifije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonfiremadigan.com/uploads/fckeditor/file/xotomeritexixelubusog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.weilandensemble.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/marodexuzanud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9f478c9d100ee35e7d66a459ea57a3b/446549345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medi-sen.com/files/files/73750415060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanquinoafamily.com/shopadmin/upload/files/vijexojijobazerazowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulwichtaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/44247379474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gasthaus-steinkirchen.de/img/editor/file/xitoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thewellmanteam.com/userfiles/files/25278356599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ce31c141b9---fafifipigagiragewewubelag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saaegfpolis.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/detitupatarolipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jokerprod.net/userfiles/file/19608602237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartcirclegroup.com/userfiles/file/73231682722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idosekotthonaveresegyhaz.hu/files/files/46739032838.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_off0000b145.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB145 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 70937bc9b3bfcc8ed61ef0f68d96f05344061581c67d29f6f3932899088ccd3c
font_01_sfnt_off0000caa7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAA7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e2b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2B9 14148 bytes
SHA-256: f8bc0868a0d392a64fb890918daca2f3d39caa465d7b1eb2a0ea835ab290f268