Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0dee94e4199a72c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-07-03 17:00:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 239d0bf9b30be27f6ae2655fcb4d1d77 SHA-1: 3913231293d860ab679a6dc3572457dd100a37b4 SHA-256: 0dee94e4199a72c4929e20d0d3aadb8410693665b510361a820be661f64c2307
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to phishing or malware distribution sites. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/xelonatiniwe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.cpro.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d7c142cc1---sabasaxefide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datavincity.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/14315135518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v7i282adjv74apv28ik7sfn9o3/146800153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e44b5a2fb2c930c37e0c486ef59adac3/33499493560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ef3f9de067---40896388256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iva-vietnam.com/userfiles/file/50365946975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093c9d089f0d---kotogufaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c523f1573d45aeed9ed2beec13bb0d1/27607364532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fecoil.com/userfiles/file/97129762915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chefinhogourmet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9de5c7ea53a9a24bcfaaa4230fdce674/72779929684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1766a8119f---dufesatotapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/13697445613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chieucoingason.vn/files/vidigiroti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/vanososesupukav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtshotel.it/images/file/20412124265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad8f72d8df1---dupejegupukavewuritaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dpa80ttbpv18go4j1qkkcg04v/remavozazejedaturepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eca1c942c5---dijakevedige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eobliecky.sk/userfiles/file/bofanavalunadogaped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/483535092763a8290dd1cba7382b52e8/rilivaxogamiraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiadomainstore.com/userfiles/file/jasazawigexobutivozopiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/kemaxeletonodutower.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/pesewiwuvasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9b8f3ee255---fegemiravakul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c346468b137a9d539a49b4dbaf7ed98/56615334890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c42d5c7e7b---gerakus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=yorks+carryout+greenmountPDF 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_off0000c753.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC753 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000df65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF65 17172 bytes
SHA-256: e361357354ccc6175f69509d813b8f907ae1bdf2293bcf4c33a483444e210c6a
font_02_sfnt_off00010c94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C94 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 6504713f774a255af88e981bb950cab8e29ad8a60e900aa58427c301ee9f0032