Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f5336296d29a767…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-09-27 09:27:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2b6fbb95ad83cb2722f4ce704f60ed88 SHA-1: 1bbf25713b98f2b38bed8108534f4559219daa15 SHA-256: 0f5336296d29a767c1ca99c6f924863ea531f2b5be90af9199ed99ae8141869d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=anatomy+and+physiology+pdf+tortora PDF link annotation
    • http://fapannimario.it/userfiles/files/49332662111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexandersorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/94912274084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petra-koparki.pl/Upload/file/56833952116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.binghan.my/userfiles/file/19749139257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6dda217bf213cc0a741beebd40aa233/rinibarot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jimsclub.net/new/board/img_tinfo/file/20210919003447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rasathantrananotech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58189586221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityclick.it/userfiles/files/wenowul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengatetaichiqigong.com/userfiles/file/98639720719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ciesol.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16557241894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatnhapkhau.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zutis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kyanite.tv/userfiles/file/jegogilogatapovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roycraft.ca/userfiles/file/59103894231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/njfq7dv0l896hsllj03og8up8c/janodexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132195446c78---desurifemojukekobumevesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37af378cdcf84a7b31c734c74f0e73ab/41568902514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--p3t29jo1ed4o4xw.tw/upload/files/45644758345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocenfis.es/uploads/assets/file/4264255926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130e891b275d---xetikapavunawig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studyhalltracker.com/files/file/98281922923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nayyaralidada.com/alpha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jewaderagike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bharatceramics.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kukarebimatizoxo.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_off0000b257.bin
8601120b58d8f25127803b57e79d4af6ce859dc12d353f53b3cd9751cb9768cf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB257 17360 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000deff.bin
9f74cc23a14824b932f3dd9fc0596bd18b7ac257eec84acbe44349c88c80820a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEFF 10908 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f7da.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7DA 16792 bytes