Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0dcfe8544d297160…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.6 KB Created: 2021-09-10 15:22:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: abbff0b2855ed30e1c1879d0ca269f7f SHA-1: 07a10aabc1d15a91f1fa53ed7356ccc7552a6815 SHA-256: 0dcfe8544d297160d071db1be566afd6a781cc4cff966149caae8e3676ddb88a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to other PDF files hosted on various domains. Several heuristics indicate this is a link farm, with some URLs hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the rationale is based on the URL structure and heuristic findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/69844986746.pdf
    • http://xn--or3bo5mvlb.com/data/editor/file/64785883119.pdf
    • https://ku4ysk-9lgp4y.com/contents/files/vubolawegasaxebafumibo.pdf
    • http://anindecor.pl/files/file/gutigepedobibasopasupore.pdf
    • http://onlytech-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/nonofajupumurafusofabi.pdf
    • https://pbpkrosno.com/fckfile/46718985948.pdf
    • http://www.benyowsky.com/resources/files/zuvejep.pdf
    • http://dpnovelty.com/upload/files/dolomifemoxateso.pdf
    • https://institutdesante.org/userfiles/file/52896460672.pdf
    • http://rilta.net/userfiles/files/88132237393.pdf
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131156a1b377---40560025532.pdf
    • http://85560891.com/upfolder/e/files/20210903223453.pdf
    • https://badeluxe.com/userfiles/files/96156263902.pdf
    • https://xn--espaoldetalca-lkb.cl/var/www/html/upload/file/78814991421.pdf
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u2fu99fq3e0i27uoatgpmqtsqb/2571237868.pdf
    • http://www.pzkexie.com/up_files/file/kajokabezi.pdf
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613260429f4e2---depapan.pdf
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/zafumazuda.pdf
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139f6b154236---kosiwe.pdf
    • http://mtreurope.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zenijosezigowitagigi.pdf
    • http://alpinist.store/sribati/editor/uploadfiles/56156361722.pdf
    • http://feach.ie/images/uploads/file/1955865792.pdf
    • http://s2group.pl/userfiles/file/merigiwokewa.pdf
    • https://mountainbrookbuilders.com/home/mountain/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53199908752.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=kimetsu+no+yaiba+movie+full+movie+english+subtitles
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010c62.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C62 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012479.bin
2f14c1cbd841e9e5fdd6e43bad5632961c805b1092faacadb0e93c052fa5a8ac
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12479 10972 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013dd4.bin
c17a6d833393e460266eb3e141bb3c08b1a07c2245cbf0a28e938d5c4b3576d6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DD4 19228 bytes