Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0dff8c37d80284e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-16 00:50:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 6d876cb2afa53c04d6169b6778801779 SHA-1: 0bf0c88925c5576ae3b21de047d4c137f184ffed SHA-256: 0dff8c37d80284e8b692f1f4b968bbd69179d9c8ae9b52d81674d5d731ee20cc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating it functions as a link farm. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious intent.

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 https://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+fix+battery+drain+in+android PDF link annotation
    • http://yeditepegumruk.com/userfiles/64874712471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/80756293366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613341dc8b9c5---21301527871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.derbysignandgraphics.com/uploads/file/maduvexuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scuolascifondocortinadolomiti.it/userfiles/files/sakinajekomujux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilot-nav.socksnbows.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fidupev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermatologie-chamonix.com/userfiles/file/88426782145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kubermatkaplay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35508195101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/082ab85a8ef6d3020c7d431812d8cd9c/61448577136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161399b02cb5db---57369981291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137c450ae11d---25793979406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ondamarinarest.com/upload/files/27292957580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvuketoansg.com/luutru/files/daruvene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-pasz.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19300841628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindicav.com.br/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/degoxoxirunokepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bnblspecialities.com/userfiles/files/57473103256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marsanz.pl/uploads/fck/file/22671012460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://henuopack.com/d/files/635824966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalcircle.club/userfiles/file/pokebasedon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yachtales.net/admin/userfiles/files/20304042640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fk-fudosan.1nino3.com/app/webroot/img/userfiles/files/29526198338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simbhaolipower.com/images/file/3611444789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dom4m.de/userfiles/files/66628676782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d25b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD25B 17924 bytes
SHA-256: 5415003a0112277c2ca229bf58054eb779cecb7f08399fb59bc4d7ebfd2d5eda
font_01_sfnt_off000100a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100A2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000118b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118B9 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 4945a78375529202f3d5a9953910d157fe6f8d46ceca7ee92cf9e624a84a92d6