Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0df01090eddeb8bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

138.8 KB Created: 2021-07-19 03:01:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 858f6a8c947c099662b984a3dd882563 SHA-1: 67e590b6bb76376f7bd3a96063f5c92e6d532dc4 SHA-256: 0df01090eddeb8bcbde2bbf8d7702dc554f3e8886888e80ddbfe25379d32f7e7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. 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 0.9913

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://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mo163hnr4to8bou267jpptomqc/38937731790.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084655572e02---julad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e34f9c1ca413c719404439f1b16ea3e/3777642267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf7301bce1---lizunajivikinepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0o5j994e0ja5ip3p36b63p9875/tejamovitex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ab64238d2e920de2a9a9049597648e2/tebagogosino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pauseforserenity.com/clients/1/10/1002a5d8b3740fc7390aa1937d1ec3ed/File/rusufasitakakefijifobob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1877painters.com/FCKeditor/file/povev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d65be8e041f04906919aadc477e8ca15/batazenobezifopep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzdsbg.com/uploadfile/1624004005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65473131b277d16d0387da8410365bb2/9160522138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r6ori3t76pp9nlhjgh49rhq1q9/97114117384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b3dfd679f4---10750067166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leadershipcareer.kr/fckeditor/_upload/file/55518232832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siripanyalamphun.com/user_img/files/74010506670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bcb14ebbd0---wukimakuxenalanoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brooklynsmokeshops.com/admin/images/file/roserozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/58434679206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d4storonto.com/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/kaxososinojalusine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nmcs.ca/userfiles/files/76302711437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ddi8m3nqdutqtkmarv647qglt/jedubaterixelevobevizim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richwoods1969.com/clients/861079/File/zakagerutowadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vyveva.eu/UserFiles/File/tokujin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d579c755e---54930528987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=fighting+a+cold+while+on+immunosuppressionPDF 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_off0001b69d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B69D 11124 bytes
SHA-256: 92267b99c8d9431c22aca9e2d0743cad7fbf0aadc72ae5c2172a782e98d1cc64
font_01_sfnt_off0001d03c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D03C 19480 bytes
SHA-256: efbcb42d92ffdb6ea028ea5fb641aca223ac8946462f3c0e36b8880b37cb2144
font_02_sfnt_off0002036b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2036B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1