Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d93708a48a63636…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-10-07 23:59:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: c27eeb2b33c53f8ffc79da36a2f9acc4 SHA-1: 1ffe0dfe5de278ee12291dec3ee6370e25267b56 SHA-256: 0d93708a48a63636b19d23bff2672dff256706b2118e79a8db540ef399c8507b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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=faring+the+storm PDF link annotation
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/53299214946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karlholmbygg.se/UserFiles/files/bemejivigupofolepekozawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robbes.nl/media/files/gavowidopuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editions-tlp.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91941607797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bc45a825b8---96182625670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f132029375---6373484387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d049c5e4e244c260c58845f87513418/88320356736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1utilaje.ro/mm/file/83040857377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dr-temt.ru/images/file/budimilamejuzevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubfila.in/files/file/92509128491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/44768091696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/mapumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f382762290fc9f1211a94fbdd0497b9/xatekawulixexafat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uudanbury.life/files/file/12474216728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baracenter.be/userfiles/file/zujabukutajulaleful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://realestatespoznan.com/uploads/70154773990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tungalag.mn/userfiles/files/11721403119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://letajicikoberce.cz/userfiles/file/97807477218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whiteplacard.com/UserFiles/file/relunaketovikaxatubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thangmayedex.com/webroot/img/files/77836726528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alothongtin.com/upload/FCK/file/71699607890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semot.com/Store/userfiles/file/taputato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wct.goldcrownresort.com/magazine_files/files/65077956183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenegiving.aboutgiving.net/sites/default/files/editor/file/84455293321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dealershop.es/userfiles/file/41520801806.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_off0000e061.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE061 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f878.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF878 10488 bytes
SHA-256: a031135924b41c147225898e6782827c35d53e036bb774412041f382ca5e9621
font_02_sfnt_off00011019.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11019 18372 bytes
SHA-256: 0ac810dd7d68d265ed56234fc46dd0d6992a4b3c722717b9e20ed36d46270c1a