Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0effdebf1e77a62a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 22:22:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 6d0e487d3a558e852048e5f8e1899143 SHA-1: ac926b98cb98599a33fdc5eaac6d618654cbaadf SHA-256: 0effdebf1e77a62a6c519fa9f79d1aa37293abac7117cfa618b0a2cfe1e8cf7f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this attack pattern. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613120865c1a8---damin.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gemma.lucien-sv.info/uploads/files/613f2fe782465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrcubezpieczenia.pl/app/webroot/media/files/31896985474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://get-insurance.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruxarelojofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nattuvaartha.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/83567952751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoskola-scp.com/files/84562724642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://disonde.com/filespath/files/20210913213314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piqiso.ru/userfiles/file/kemikexawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138343a2554a---33428858002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handbook.hu/upload/page/file/88618672605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autopits-directo.migrupoq.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pelupogodixuxela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136877546a04---45813202578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicaabrahaoosta.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wazow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falerisztika.hu/tmp/32951452163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parfumerieindex.nl/images/uploads/2392173504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equinox-e.com/upload/UserFiles/file/wofoxafigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0hjpn6bi9nn53sad211g6g36qd/31445619699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wujipacking.tw/upload/files/zoxowapazulijanazik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130143160d24---juguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mashhadgardi724.ir/basefile/mashhadgardi724/files/99149548117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosallaesf.ir/uploads/ck/files/23163592315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://champaigncursillo.com/userfiles/file/zuzopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siriusdynamics.com/assets/uploads/files/bedijawumakuwono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.restaurant-latableedevercel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13853426655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=top+games+apk+downloadPDF 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_off0000d02b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD02B 19540 bytes
SHA-256: 13176d4121f3fee44a6ccc5fcafa72d0016f508eff8c815b25612b7570305de9
font_01_sfnt_off000103b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103B7 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 77d7c42549a63060698610dc25c0a552a809d8413bf1cc5d75fb8f604677d1ca
font_02_sfnt_off00011bc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BC5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1