Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d7ceb9bc6ceb93c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-23 16:09:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 22162381c4b008f8c3e3990c6303491c SHA-1: e7ee3035be7901302877f7b7b49ddb9a3854bda4 SHA-256: 0d7ceb9bc6ceb93c9ce1cbcc1b4601ce32720d10d59d52e543e58ea73b865ebb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://yuhao-tech.com/userfiles/file/dulafozejikubawudos.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cathyknightwaite.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wasebonabemobufaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketdoanbus.com/webroot/img/files/32051152350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seattledesis.com/fckeditor/file/9636089201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodara.eu/userfiles/files/wuxoxaneguxapozetileduvul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planao.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kinenukimumurugarip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1e6a553a42cf6a38c23ead6947d80f6/lawusurodiliwigon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanyoujie.vip/userfiles/file/7544527326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://way-of-spirit.ru/upload/file/90079486868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvugiayphep.net/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/93497745819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designerhouse.ru/upload/files/tunitev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaxtongroup.com/home5/maxconne/public_html/kaxtongroup/assets/images/newspostimages/files/12315447994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biondiairsystem.it/userfiles/files/25553351813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editora-arara-azul.com.br/site/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nesalomitoreni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bygreenpure.com/userfiles/file/90254832245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yugang360.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-10/20210910003703221708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c64eb96596683ebbed0a5829c8e8cd58/sewib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcsfood.com/images/file/wibub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protetyka-lublin.com/images/wyswig_images/file/21779516113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138d006b95f8---76203163606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitvenezuela.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rireguxijizufewoligavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investbuild.ru/var/upload/file/bagukubop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copperscrap.wasteequipment.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9554327288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/boa5756kra1t5pb31vo3dptqaj/kewefulajoloxosagogon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/duxajuxusoxibigumuputa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c086bd8943---bevevepoveluporumik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makenie.com/upload/files/2527838611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=knight+war+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000d7bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7BD 10664 bytes
SHA-256: f6024e8d9cde3ee85408ddfa6360fe8449bc3f1dc5085f733a380826211d7f7d
font_01_sfnt_off0000efc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFC3 20860 bytes
SHA-256: e9b8a5f5f17941c21affa0c66326a974a0d039f23637a962b79ddbe4218f9bcc
font_02_sfnt_off00012567.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12567 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1