Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f680a62231fbb51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 23:07:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: df74a13e85204007fad7df3b4cb35982 SHA-1: 83a6cfc1b70d555b92f61c3360ae56bc2f65b713 SHA-256: 0f680a62231fbb514d4e5546ebc30789b3bfff50d00d9aa0a27658fd612857f2
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports this, indicating a lure to download a malicious file. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristics strongly suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+truecaller+apk+download PDF link annotation
    • http://schokofontaenen.de/idata/40358831626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sys-svinding.dk/userfiles/file/sivawaxuxuxepetagelufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shjkyq.com/up_files/FCK/file/22737084859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicalproduct.hu/images/files/nomopivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7foro.exceltur.org/exceltur_nuevo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fodezososogen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.afoa.org.ar/backend/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vokuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenagegroup.vip/userfiles/file/38496069750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odumakus.com/uploads/files/rozewozeladokedur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137f63a03692---ziwalaxafowuzonogolox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24horasnoar.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/semoxudofujonutenedok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockhousemethod.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/memabolenopolakagefala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htcable.cn/d/files/zotemexijogigafemesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u44jj1gn3hfe6og7lui9gio625/6960571318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pantonerestauri.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72935780050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140a4a2ed7a1---zamaxone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actaviaserica.org/board/file/files/23153535924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phukienbep.net/media/files/18490867255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://178.62.148.222:300/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zoguwafotegelezojebiz.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/file/83750233832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgrenginiai.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuwaxetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terminarz.online/kosmetyczka/krakow/files/31409008848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614258459cf2e---luwawokupavisaferez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vettercycles.ch/userfiles/files/94289272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kratky.eu/files/file/jonazaru.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_off0000e9fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9FB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001020d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1020D 19232 bytes
SHA-256: 13b3d165c1df6d2a07c873dd9da381011fc4d76346bc141182da003d960ce426
font_02_sfnt_off000133b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133B4 10528 bytes
SHA-256: d8b8a6883f80b0a094dfb7bc125207100d624e845738bac7e37dce69775f5ad1