Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d537e4f8b32c929…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-21 00:20:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 6ceedf2f7285f615d080f8d34483c869 SHA-1: 3f5daf84e7bfdf2533f965db505ac0f302361f43 SHA-256: 0d537e4f8b32c92928c6a6706e37febaa457d60224721baed5cc7b509ec3b977
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators points towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for malware distribution or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ping+booster+premium+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://caerulumpharma.com/upload/files/zawopemivelikotupino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assotechne.eu/userfiles/files/87915988839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdfgiare.com/upload/files/jikagijatipadij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euronet.stonavka.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21936828985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teacherandtraining.com/coj_u/KK/userfiles/files/46420314812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatimaartwork.com/userfiles/file/27697462406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanda-boiler.com/d/files/1095619947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cardolf.ro/files/25879597800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yugang360.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-20/20210920130348394820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monographie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rifanexexamumeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.meditech.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pakubekunus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161449a059eb6e---76507412298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guruamardaspublicschool.com/userfiles/files/7917517638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicaalcantara.es/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/dugeraxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharmnet.cz/ckfiles/files/files/fomebir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shipgo17.com/plugin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48354923595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trlgpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/66578702292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140e32e1bcef---mudexivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148fa9e59ef4---62113163575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://needlugs.com/userfiles/files/kubimijozurogules.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://permanentnimakeup-brno.cz/userfiles/files/6475093883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungklimalar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/22973771165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://utuin.net/files/fckeditor/file/22927986694.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_off0000e22b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE22B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA3D 19272 bytes
SHA-256: 934812a596a741443a73c39961482387c5a8f8891cc1c4ab3c49253aa9f15d00
font_02_sfnt_off00012d34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D34 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 6094b4361c2dcfe78bfa5aa8225c4134bbc1d7302a7ea1a0c59f08da50f4505f