Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0df4a606111ec1db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 21:09:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 3216274e6acf872c64b68c4952542cbd SHA-1: 3a0f0cdb87f31c349181973c42247239a14a0103 SHA-256: 0df4a606111ec1dbb9e99cadd528d06da4f3d688885a6d83c6500bb749b4955b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lead users to malicious content or further compromise. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution capabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9944

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 https://publicbridge.pl/userfiles/file/27670004776.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c65fcd9d0b---50465961231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/366ee903389fbef1af90f03cba80d95d/dopemutevaruguxorolev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bedandbreakfastchia.it/userfiles/file/zarukolebof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71l2uqie6v3h6jk0pi3kg2jtu2/69541518438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelofthewinds.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29697449847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marupyara.com/fotos/userfiles/file/59621552020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pantryscan.com/123cars/imagefck/file/75390933506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etre-cheval.fr/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/etre%20cheval/news_pix/file/zavesonelam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piemonteforyou.it/userfiles/file/66434972952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmckno2010.zkosuchdol.info/files/9914621998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/61634857023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/vitunurojexemupedomin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyteepee.com/uploadfiles/file/210826110601425064ink5c9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgtofubbq.com/uploads/files/2302111544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theettiaresottawa.ca/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/vedegugadesurifulod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ofertaromania.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90460195768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ig-einheitsloks.de/medien/file/mutopaxolorodurexet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ae8f635d1---nonofatok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ad151a5f53---65851118494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/xinitexotafotuxurore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapli74.ru/upload_picture/25583146318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o0listf444eu9kr8qq56da835k/86666103672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weyergans-hcc.lv/userfiles/file/bexisudaxugogodawideb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=sign+manual+synonymPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b72b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB72B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF3C 16132 bytes
SHA-256: 071bac7a3a90310621307d68123817e30fba7c89f9e5021c4391eb43bd8b9137
font_02_sfnt_off0000e4af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4AF 20300 bytes
SHA-256: fffc3fa97aa018571dc0aedd6b00fc12e7821c57ff49033275be39fc47f0f870
font_03_sfnt_off00011791.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11791 10408 bytes
SHA-256: 433f7b75749a0218e883c39768045989f4d7a45bc83c29d5aec843ff8131420a