Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f6776002b70d6e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-13 22:36:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: d5bec366ae0fadf125fbf213871fb6e5 SHA-1: cf39fdeff2cfd1c5bd4c56aae7cc918f258b6b2b SHA-256: 0f6776002b70d6e5737e08c9442ea8013b8d0858d091c55834a5e92cd865c164
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly indicate a malicious purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://tahubunting1.com/contents/files/muzopiromusafizosupikupu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bfull.ru/uploads/files/60414190352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://achilleferolla.it/userfiles/files/84892949721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alltechsro.cz/files/74526257697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia.eu/upload/files/zaridonuvevopor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnmetalworks.com/images/files/dowusitikovituropuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ce261aed4f---zewetewebifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanurichurch.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22446802993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alienaquatics.com/home/gb/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55847784670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multi-accueil.fr/ressource/site-image/files/vowoxokatexananudabasod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rivucota.com/upload/files/35563727619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foodchemsino.com/d/files/54233610438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushimenifee.com/uploads/files/texezubilapixufej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businesslife.com/content/file/xogamozevizapasolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161371c4504251---950419540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencerenerji.com/resimler/files/radigaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ead09dc94b---wunogodotolejozozenabiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indianmailbox.com/assets/images/userfiles/files/23556100988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebankcardservices.com/uploads/files/45517205057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://factblogs.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/migelibageme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printsolutions.ro/uploads/wysiwyg/files/salinutoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0900107678.com/upload/file/xefetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paitoonbox.com/userfiles/files/62742425346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nyig.com/files/file/30756649151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+heart+gold+shiny+starter+codePDF 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://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_off0000e299.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE299 11024 bytes
SHA-256: ab1f7d02db812f82e69f5ddee534e83265b39ea839ee74793be20f75064bb356
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBDE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000113f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113F0 17864 bytes
SHA-256: d74f0b24e3ec048f00aa993561cb5a97f6829f70a99b41ce7b7f6b42dcae978c