Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f2165714cd5e363…

MALICIOUS

PDF

120.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 13:22:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 3fbaa19fb8c3b33c7ad60e200792448e SHA-1: 72398e3b1e1fc3a35e0c9083bb0f470a5cb271bb SHA-256: 0f2165714cd5e363a12539b6db715d2b3ad2d6c03c8f6deee2e357e7981efd25
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a spearphishing attachment used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210516155256070.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://szigmetal.hu/editor_up/ginetixidolitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingenermarket.ru/userfiles/wewunovidazibaripejewabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2977a573e1---zovowuzexetasomaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iuuef4ndeft3i0p8h5t9849a6l/joramovapipuxaxalesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragonera.cn/admin/userfiles/file/tevixel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alves.bg/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fogefivujakuruwozojadewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/23072972108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acdbd72ede3---kivofobisegesafaxiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arket.io/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/580sqf7rg1pb0su4198eff73hf/30652043472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/33699347469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cl-pub.com/files/files/81316073840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotossc.pl/_files/file/92693965302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonfiremadigan.com/uploads/fckeditor/file/12006532117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb602ce3692---bojorutubekarusigemered.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digiconelectronics.com/media/96723516389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.verneteco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vofetuwifaxuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wernersuarez.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/58899412309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sola-brothers.com/userfiles/file/84206470772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853036a421a---vesuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j9g80391vvi7e3nvtqdoikvjsd/12117874262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bd9d41ae4e---pasewogufukutogixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=tintin+bangla+comics+pdf+ebook+free+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_off00016526.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16526 22300 bytes
SHA-256: 3405f7e89924d6ecc7b0e2efc2d42f1795f10000ee0e8c1a95e329871863a9fc
font_01_sfnt_off00019fcd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19FCD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001b7e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B7E4 11244 bytes
SHA-256: b715f97f958daab2bab5e00163cc47f39e6640d540f6327185e916f48d6a8218