Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e910f01806a26c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-07-01 23:52:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 2a1bd69dace3127b79bc2ba61c014610 SHA-1: 222fecd812e9d34f259e61bd6571f3b01a881379 SHA-256: 0e910f01806a26c90f5e9d6f898e1fa48cad7698b2caa7f76cfd4d6fbbd7c545
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, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The presence of these links suggests the document is designed to lure users to malicious sites, potentially for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://resetimpianti.it/reset/public/file/fovojedipamisew.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/37436827943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astro2sphere.com/admin/images/file/wesex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dquj5utuleo1vu5hjustp1vcd7/kofevalaxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartywspomnien.pl/uploads/assets/file/zovazokaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4bd99c662db4fca0e13d6dd6af0d436/43458576831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a68d18c1484---rigemijawixoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americansummercamps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070e8801662d---39362905376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/87191486125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fcf31eb23f---34591494440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carea2plus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/778180ea8f2a9422efc61a258a37335a/16240673075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coebmsf.com/userfiles/file/nevaxarupebasukesomafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/nobiwogan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aac6582a2615c4db8074ad87b0c55e6c/ziwajiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videoacceso.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160756a1f125c3---28684667403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbcb62d6a72---14867765139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ausafe.net/images/art/files/38281377586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1284rn2c6sbohvh4pk37fu23v7/49689593310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a16f311f3b5---retefebisil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2d5626f178---59458201364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sllight.ru/design/img/upload/file/41325144013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b75222ec18a062b095e7fe12f388d85/fatejimokis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kme.pl/global/app/webroot/uploads/file/16232146962326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhs-class1957.com/clients/35434/File/simenitefatoweme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb0trmrqjrulkvoq025cvc218k/janem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=kick+the+buddy+unlimited+coinsPDF 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_off0000ed78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED78 17320 bytes
SHA-256: 1bd620e48dc8b959f3bd77097930412cd5873ca2193434ed3b5164b312c94981
font_01_sfnt_off00011aab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AAB 10812 bytes
SHA-256: e76b26ac8d29d0397ae14e500a8c7af81345e24a8976b7f765e6f1b7cc0ec61a
font_02_sfnt_off00013369.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13369 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1