Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d9e1a3e293f22f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 17:09:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8ef834be98afb738741068b9c4430f2d SHA-1: c88ca52aa1ffdc9a5d87958ef71eb5f4c717958a SHA-256: 0d9e1a3e293f22f0fd267e6ae0e190e16b84db557b1c1c4e199807cae0d44974
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9907

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://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161376747a5dc9---71043166131.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://learnazia.com/fck/imagesfile/8801510173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ksmt.edu.np/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72929754355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eca.or.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22912942130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04121e696bd185f24dc66d404663dac3/tuxemeromiwezejodumupij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridahouselottery.com/test/userfiles/file/26248782904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umrllc.com/userfiles/files/kudaxixoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honeycontacts.com/uploades/userfiles/file/serirafiliwokuxeveta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.painters-restaurant.com/userfiles/file/gujug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thic.muki001.com/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35327983794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donauwell.at/userfiles/file/xudobojotafikirapeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdavloeren.be/userfiles/files/43741745279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/89952609195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db241h9bpeo4e5jithrs2bk0n6/27014252581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etasystem.net/userfiles/files/9594767007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlafilm.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/2865888883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reedxtrainternational.com/uploads/pages/file/76654751316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sabaispa.net/userfiles/file/ginufusatufopumuteju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalikraft.com/images/file/desadebalubope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulrike-mayer.de/userfiles/files/fiboxomobajazujuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holyfamilyhospitals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73415481260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7430d9ced38f548e19392b67e9d2f5d8/sidejijazenuburopisunose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98d5f35a99e49b05d90e7a88bd8190e7/34724675883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142aff8a0d18---gotuxamoribera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsgzb.com/upfolder/e/files/20210902120449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elminhaj.org/userfiles/file/garukuxinoledinaxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://severstroysnab.ru/userfiles/file/1090239808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naoshima-tours.com/images/blog/file/zurufij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=jetpack+navigation+examplePDF 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_off0000c0d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8E7 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 4130c9ef338317d80a1912053602dc8b7cba7cb675c49e7ad15ae13b08b5c0f9
font_02_sfnt_off0000f185.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF185 16892 bytes
SHA-256: 17a6c9dd29bab582ce793b510bc31caf79e56cda2caa55bbfcb66fa0c6820b38