Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e71d471d6401883…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-09 16:10:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d90fad794f7e131a62b5c10e4c86eba3 SHA-1: 84b75007f04b71a86f45cdf70a2d1b9d7cb759d8 SHA-256: 0e71d471d64018832ed6bc5ba3c4979045c86f47811f316e65cf3803254ecb39
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cool+wallpaper+and+keyboard+steampunk+pipes+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://fuze-pay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nokepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ritascreation.com/userfiles/file/xugedofovifiliteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consulcongress.it/uploads/assets/file/12401766050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/25118344603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanamihic.com/files/wagam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abisspaandboutique.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/xurun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://websurin.net/UserFiles/File/43973475103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retailpark.bg/uploads/wysiwyg/files/56675035779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassungsservice4you.de/bilder/file/35622360482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74dj353jephamm5v74q7ac5ddk/85984118929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transporteslaplata.com/imagenes_web/file/wibifuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131a7c60837b---43159386572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubesquilacoma.com/uploads/files/xirobogidit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161360daeb6434---3215275358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.com/uploads/File/gofavexodiroxawogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131b73ef1bf2---41551214212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swapnakoodu.com/fck_uploads/file/bavufuxilojarizis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://austarpharma.com/upload/files/91551455870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluekeydigital.com/images/pic/file/32236166130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isuzuphonoi.com/data/dulieu/files/29440642703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alessandrotria.altervista.org/areap/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19664381304.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_off0000d4bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4BC 11116 bytes
SHA-256: 8e425d9f0f44c6a1e6944f66ab0aaa3ec626a8092657ce52ef09a69afee661ef
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE86 19348 bytes
SHA-256: 72cbc2cb138c54660ea6067dcd05dce3c442fa95acb8f189c1c35b4b6aca46db
font_02_sfnt_off0001204d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1204D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1