Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d88c645eb2beb3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:56:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 709fc81d3c32c4905a9307057311ee71 SHA-1: cce8f7dec4102111cf2cdf0b0f744907c51c5c09 SHA-256: 0d88c645eb2beb3e41cad017354a63d174140e31f946270e0688485828981cd1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm, suggesting its primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a T1566.001 (Spearphishing Attachment) attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=brand+awareness+journal+articles+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/javagubiwafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f2eac0a14---mekagubaxolajutetatuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omgmediatank.com/userfiles/files/rodiwivowakapor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfa294ebd0787f8db23dc62597e1d4d0/mutupezefiruwofogutejut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160849a965027b---79700448909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioindelicato.com/userfiles/files/tezepixopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da4e055e08---15469396722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161317901160db---4072377474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coonvalleycc.com/userfiles/file/33180210345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3100f65cd8---49112714223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://takeacode.eu/user/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e/file/jufovugemedilanamonenav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clic-essc.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73428572867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://risorsaterra.it/userfiles/files/9029262100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073be09c045f---4071834792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53bc0fc2f19b70a9f7382715203a6c15/ninajikidugukolufaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arendic.cl/files/47959386132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e0488047d---78820825960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://systematix.pl/userfiles/file/37822177820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607375ec92986---buwuvevarujimiwumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fishtech.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/93950034183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mvpvo.ru/userfiles/file/kenazenukupunonopab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vattuxaydunghl.com/userfiles/file/11240059575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e29d68d40819e3310d10b2b589cf0a34/newubojamamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vsu6urh14qn8gqqpoi66taivjv/28096723028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81dfd52622470f9d0052ad5864853042/vajagapuxabil.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_off0000d978.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD978 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 9f34fc80ba615f6147717dcd92ce6d2f19a126f59d5b04ebb9a916b3cc341b08
font_01_sfnt_off0000f318.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF318 17932 bytes
SHA-256: e8709cb6c5a9094ca51638654d44463949445c3c50bab41d756615998239e370
font_02_sfnt_off000121d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121D1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1