Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f3e41d8eac7c265…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.7 KB Created: 2021-09-17 16:25:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ab82ca3e68d4537447b567999e5a3ecc SHA-1: 15c41a9b7605803f5e4cd911de850cab202b6ca8 SHA-256: 0f3e41d8eac7c265be39764571db4bdf5d47df9e2700b2f253bec9ec4868ee93
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous external URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of a "download button" lure and a high ML classifier score, combined with ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan, strongly suggests malicious intent. The document's primary function appears to be to trick users into clicking links that likely lead to the download of further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=stream+suicide+squad+movie PDF link annotation
    • https://chiataiec.com/userfiles/Proj_Name/files/78635184851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qqur3psptv3m5uu86smte2mcnm/xesagagatug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swiftnb.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79351918576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakamurasangyou.jp/app/webroot/uploads/files/53409332768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grasslandtj.com/upload/files/58840096731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brihat-group.com/assets/userfiles/files/53245243518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esteticka-stomatologie.cz/files/content/file/74094041943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmrivestimenti.com/userfiles/files/bixomazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariasangiacomo.it/userfiles/files/85830578689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dajuicebarus.com/uploads/files/40251378252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sten.kr/club/data/userfiles/file/20210912213806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotwresort.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pibubogasaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpinist.store/sribati/editor/uploadfiles/nawikidisorakarezido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharjahcements.com/images/bulk_images/files/xazipuxoviwinenaduxilel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alemarferries.alemarsnp.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kabujotexakujura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bharatiyabhashaparishad.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nenigituboluwipajinukezuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbibepnhahang.net/media/files/pixusodejijixesedusux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5696aadbd9b5a1a825aa007b65c5a20e/satusufadokoweberi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142fe843ccd4---30441024368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/90241259629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612faaebe39a7---24699908216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deycaterers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/japipemubebuvugabukoxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79b17062cb15268d1827908af64131ce/99315573865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b33641c60f265fd0a51a78f6ac9aa471/pagatenuxagafawigogam.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_off00013575.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13575 19356 bytes
SHA-256: aac060837962c1d3337481a6925630883794e458e20ba72ad3f07a154ecbee6b
font_01_sfnt_off00016864.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16864 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 83edeb4ff56df36b069b5d2eec7ba3f55c9f2ae72d472598b5b3f7a904931b07
font_02_sfnt_off00018105.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18105 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1