Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0dce26e332ef8c54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-06-29 09:09:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 8c0a03798c4609289fa17328e8f21625 SHA-1: 4bce81a3652b8bd4c9320a59ad501da86eb2f25b SHA-256: 0dce26e332ef8c54b9d21a7fa78e133a1708a05f2513659dd38ac1f2dd9e7f8b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 http://aokisuper.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35736970935.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36e4ded892bedeccda214fd318f4a62b/sebuzonorukisisubifedulop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aluvascientific.com/UserFiles/file/sotesoladozonukadiwibote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stratford1980.com/clients/1/19/19838be1bbe5684469623718d5e25b5d/File/30583546286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otoozevran.com/resimler/files/3008471784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geniodelweb.com/file/dodiginarimimunijexajem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a6ace63fb1---soginetabudon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f36fa848ed7a40c18b2fd0614814c3af/78598931049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088a4ba71660---87421317178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9d0dc67390---tuzawelaxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t4bfqrhhlkso65fj9isggm05tv/gujixusuvijelizuxadaretim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0m66ho04kg9di3c1te6gdqjm4l/xinuxinixupixikexuvel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myappartement.de/web/editor/files/83534549732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursakaynak.com/userfiles/file/84286120808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baptistfriends.org/media/poviki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2bf82c51c---99669277937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jgbt.us/pds/userfiles/files/27886511299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/46680162316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3048e4554de38d72e3a541f79e83bba5/40998280840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b717599257---kilipav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/kixatusajol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b167aa6e6---50528106059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balbok.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97052548750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=volume+of+water+in+graduated+cylinderPDF 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_off0000e1d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1D2 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 6b750e22588054e2de9d4eb61f13d47648f464469196178b10f65b41fecffbcb
font_01_sfnt_off0000faef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAEF 16932 bytes
SHA-256: 8d40f7c7713b8e5ffe838dcb8438e3e6d0ab8f650fe32a9dc953e02c3d525d24
font_02_sfnt_off00012690.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12690 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1