Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d52de7c31253fc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-09-09 15:31:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 9583052ce8756b95305873e8afcd21f0 SHA-1: e000598defbcdd2723d9897b6e99935d8c33e4ab SHA-256: 0d52de7c31253fc1462cc8505cdf5b78750fd94ce6a9a6287624036dd38ed547
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it contains embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of embedded JavaScript suggests an attempt to execute malicious code. The numerous external URLs, many hosted on disposable domains, further support a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://nokianhakkablue.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69465501466.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.leads-bd.org/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28135188605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.net/contents/files/jogarorafizuvipolowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkergeneralcontractors.net/userfiles/file/32937679858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recepti.plovdivweek.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90855870591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelpancharatna.com/assets/userfiles/files/soriri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://healhumanity.foundation/userfiles/file/gesozuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/guboxupexufuzabin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-uchebnici.com/img/file/mupukusesubenonawalem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://storemisr.com/uploads/files/6983212957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://closehorses.com/userfiles/file/tanozixegizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giteduguedesboires.com/userfiles/file/35459732082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaiger.ru/img/file/99262745040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc-israel.ru/upload/files/78739839374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ihi74kocpb7ptk3ne4his70ae2/31070542321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celebicatering.com/upload/ckfinder/files/58781383033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpidia.com/contents/files/32220093534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismoilnoceto.com/userfiles/files/18593925070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snbedu.com/uploadfile/file///2021090521512499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136269c89873---nakimikusutuviji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49403236922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doosradashak.in/ci/userfiles/files/buxanonipilizanilujajut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p6suobaridthn5u1eq9698c9r2/17920435849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandfiltr.com/files/file/vabuzaserin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vektor-bezpeki.com/userfiles/files/68191298033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=android+connect+to+wifi+wpsPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d319.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD319 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 706ebd16b69abb03585ac48786dd657c7207d4dc53f9d60119d0f43bd6585aa3
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB12 19888 bytes
SHA-256: c8bde3603973aa1515818ba4cd696c89d8b6df35f0197906c6ff46b6b159a279
font_02_sfnt_off00011e85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E85 16152 bytes
SHA-256: 0f62411f33c11177563efe33ebd0105f37df2a55e6a92cd5aec3f2cc21bf3838
font_03_sfnt_off00013418.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13418 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1