Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d6f0698a551faaa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-13 17:32:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: adec9bf19550515ce8dddb78e0e0ec08 SHA-1: 22de6e4b77f78fb926d0ee701d9f8f8c58436a42 SHA-256: 0d6f0698a551faaae680f1b891a880503486abb67fec54c54b3ae5be7ae0981e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its specific content, but the presence of numerous links and the malicious verdict strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+send+things+from+your+phone+to+computer PDF link annotation
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/35072512402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7078719d7815b9e6ca30e8379b944675/27759526481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134636d36e29---sisokozatevuridisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frisch.ro/files/file/wupowujakesevawulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/gijatomamewip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/15623007128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flirdining.com/uploads/files/tizowiponarekujofakexif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daimarconstrucciones.com/images/admin/file/foxesuxinawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medic-pneumolog.ro/fisiere/file/62511291184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/file/zebebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-daomeng.com/upload/userfiles/files/9bf99bbb3c91c58e03523e26c1643d5a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoaiduc.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55072569591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9413a200d022c50134ce3d657091f9ea/5856558987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polaryachtmanufactory.com/res/wysiwyg/file/6645658923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://revize-elektro.info/UserFiles/File/41246581694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/dobuvapogewabelilulil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminencesolutions.in/resources/userfiles/file/zakebujesokinibutabox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecableapp.com/FCKeditor/FCKimgUpload/file/15182647190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matraholding.hu/images/userfiles/files/nuzuwuxukusifidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161364f51c34a1---5548308751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kpa9tgahl0chmpb5a33uv9ocv2/rokobim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megacook.pt/site/upload/file/kijoxusul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/99900263074.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_off0000dde6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDE6 11152 bytes
SHA-256: 7e393101a4522f13ec2662689e5e46b26dab5df43fed38e79eae57b029701450
font_01_sfnt_off0000f796.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF796 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010fa8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FA8 17636 bytes
SHA-256: c4fdab6cdcfe35d6924d3b9c0ff69bf60b1233e574464af43cfc4b73f63b6ab6