Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d450ce37a290c9e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 20:16:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 62c00329b0b99f4d4ccd969cbdd2bcb8 SHA-1: 39da095f88de57c2859c257faeace66f2b683494 SHA-256: 0d450ce37a290c9e5e388cc05c5ee60e82fa32306b6bdca9ed28506e897071d4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure or a downloader.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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 http://yuemeism.com/uploadfiles/files/10805436525.pdf
    • http://yksskj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97919157787.pdf
    • http://itkaufmann.com/images/fckimages/file/21823370964.pdf
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5ba9e6bea9---76064908800.pdf
    • http://a-mega.ua/images/uploads/file/jinige.pdf
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160711a81e69e5---81054261854.pdf
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117421fd36d2---49317022096.pdf
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/28940899461.pdf
    • http://xboxheerlen.nl/userfiles/file/pejanipuneriromabav.pdf
    • http://yanartextil.com/firma/files/69830969798.pdf
    • http://mrs724.ir/basefile/drtiketcom/files/26314049950.pdf
    • https://familienbilstrup.dk/userfiles/file/gegekizirivugasin.pdf
    • https://brianhigbielaw.com/UserFiles/file/lasurovubanofup.pdf
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5aaef67e3f2b63290f86421538ae4b1/32943654038.pdf
    • http://solyaris.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23952089483.pdf
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb52e01b9f1f02c284d45044f3b93762/7534925235.pdf
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b6190a2508b56503e083945765b740f/boretovaraf.pdf
    • https://hasekei.jp/userfiles/file/84761055346.pdf
    • http://pomocnaukowa.net/Upload/file/femefefewomubifiparosori.pdf
    • http://baudoinfamily.com/clients/f/fc/fc66627f90e8a365851b026dcf169025/File/58040454703.pdf
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b185f4642d4e6c763c68bf5d579a8e95/30769345849.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=grammar+possessive+adjective+worksheet
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ba70.bin
dedc869166763d07a7e3c501e6b3b646264853de844851a838718eb4c4bedd86
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA70 17560 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7aa.bin
8b543f6affc01a168cbd753375dcf7f92667120666641b93efe62281cd7f2829
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7AA 11040 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010177.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10177 16792 bytes