Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f5393898a1f04d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-20 02:07:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 48a4c63a6e93d8e1f04319c147afdbb8 SHA-1: 2faa775653fd5c8a5d521dfa8b3359fc857db0b4 SHA-256: 0f5393898a1f04d41ef5d8b14272dd240da570e00270b1ca23964585559ef13e
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, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely leveraging embedded JavaScript for execution.

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 https://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wtyczka+java+na+androida PDF link annotation
    • http://king-pro.com/userfiles/files/pojesusajabagaberosajox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fu-xin.tw/uploads/files/202109180351005816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firesecurity.sk/userfiles/file/97427085100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lutechmed.com/Images_upload/files/53926083085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnepropress.net/files/file/tedip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzkontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/doselozugatarami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613aaeb56e276---tijule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161430ecb56b8c---64632545441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1cd0a6066c5a9f9a734bcd51f051518/lovamipineni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staractivecollection.com/resimler/site/files/64248816641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valgott.com/images/userfiles/file/53353441841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalycity.com/wysiwygfiles/file/54077232522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.childofafrica.org/media/userfiles/file/49850186909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://membranekeyboard.pl/_data/file/roxojugefodulutedasawig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidurmalam.com/contents/files/bemumosajas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flightshop.jp/images/blog/file/13925499604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projectmine.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/deziverenogexivoteteliza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29iffrnt5s7nut7rhp0obolir0/64469995159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungwoo-n.com/userfiles/file/bubul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okudshava.ru/userfiles/file/88270845093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proxkimya.com/resimler/files/19795997733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fsreloading.com/userfiles/files/mewixufozapuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgwealthplanner.com/crm/files/29918682212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obras.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/lunatezaxubirajepivoved.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_off0000d4ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4EE 17824 bytes
SHA-256: f254cd574b36d5b2586d40cf8686a6c25f77bde8d5433f28bcba14a2ca383805
font_01_sfnt_off000103b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103B3 10472 bytes
SHA-256: b5f8cc664d39de3a6503cbb63bddf3e37d0244b6891be64318e06f7a6d58f78a
font_02_sfnt_off00011bad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BAD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1