Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d4be52b3bed456b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 09:51:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 89396b838cbd244d15aac828b23d62c1 SHA-1: 7e01b95b8890a0987547caa5a55cc874bcaea1f1 SHA-256: 0d4be52b3bed456b78544ce5c7c95c149f04328ea9b06fdf25467ff777129803
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c065133d849---28436988146.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://uctodane.cz/UserFiles/File/10579811876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marathon-gexin.com/Uploadfiles/files/taravuwazesaloxenovem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8e6b12cedddda6dc23d67ff25556cdb/49905803438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kubablimel.pl/Image/files/49240243074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beta-rc.com/upload/files/bopazipegepimuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yepsell.com/userfiles/files/78472315544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlapcongtykiengiang.com/upload/ck/files/nanurikujojexow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa272136ad---lawiwusemugewidefakixiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/97267290512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naplesredeals.com/userfiles/files/46403839775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/524cbd452800c166de65608e29d8721e/96705683302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qkscsav5r74bm7fihv5a1263nd/51820253470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/71876751456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakra.sk/storage/file/sunubonukenexifinejitafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flatadministration.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/xejojozunebomuropofafur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/kaluvivagevesavafotituw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/puvix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=bunton+walk+behind+mower+manualPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000b600.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB600 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE12 16448 bytes
SHA-256: 11bab45ea89a116d59c07a11ca2694a8fd8fc627b9ea63d189c17633749dfd50
font_02_sfnt_off0000f890.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF890 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 9e2fc6281d99de90b0974f160ab60556015ff43a821ad8fa094dca4531b6d4e1