Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f2f8d484e01fea3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2021-09-19 00:59:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 12533cb6da0782a112e1731e13536c4e SHA-1: b6be85919a41daf4187cfa7405780a1667c7d948 SHA-256: 0f2f8d484e01fea33c7bd4bdf9519308405c022ca79a1b457bc1399eb2d2228f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to external PDF files, many hosted on domains flagged as potentially compromised or disposable. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The document's structure as a link farm suggests it's a lure to entice users to click through to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://lesen-und-schenken.de/userfiles/files/nefirememepuwelizi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn--espaoldetalca-lkb.cl/var/www/html/upload/file/nuvezumujesetugoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.poliklinika-hb.cz/userfiles/file/totugisajuzivanimof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acril.ru/ufiles/files/44031804819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiwcecckolkata.org/FCKeditor/file/fovojelelodotulivibug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://debcopharma.com/userfiles/file/bixijipovaxizewido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviafond.ru/userfiles/file/63604635718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614259a938820---18050382522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spheresignal.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/wukaforaviwenedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smogy.ru/files/files/resez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjbtrh.com/files/pic/file/bitabademogovagibimonop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irths.com/upload_files/files/rewuxapaved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021091214452083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogaleazzo.eu/userfiles/files/rekobosifovepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanakol.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gukofenovubatesunefuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinyoungvalve.com/userData/board/file/jupiwuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fultoys.com/userfiles/46149953722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datacomsystems.cz/userfiles/file/xamodefirek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lingeriedediva.com/UploadFile/file/2021090702473573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613528d07a3ba---49930452850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/zineniduvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136a3963cf4f---wokujanubes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sethhukumchandschool.com/userfiles/file/nosenusofet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rotterdampools.com/contents/files/sekel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=guardian+angel+number+555+meaningPDF 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_off0000b840.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB840 15804 bytes
SHA-256: dddd3faf2c8ac95a00cc4ba09f4c6a4eb12f8255b2ca494b76ff25f103691324
font_01_sfnt_off0000e083.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE083 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 5758a74431261340054e58bbd8adbb8f940c444e8038fa2e245b2a104dc0e914
font_02_sfnt_off0000f87c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF87C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1