Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f965404d45dbceb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-18 10:14:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e048231add2e1ab8826f2c3710de4f02 SHA-1: 51e048f73be8bd2fd3685c1bad235aefa397fe0f SHA-256: 0f965404d45dbceb50795977c6d7d1f9dfee98e7c0278332ac051f4ac90c0450
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'urgency/deadline' heuristic further support a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=coach+bus+simulator+ios PDF link annotation
    • http://naosgym.com/userfiles/files/xonadasuzinekugipepovimad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fd0d49e8a4---40108726795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a55497ffdc51e577d5828cb56b302ae/lixebabenadunozolalifup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c7b681dc3b---duranavanukitajolanot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smirna.pl/files/file/tidinone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://women-for-marriage.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31280698111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duproject.com/uploadEditor/files/39086479802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef88c4a537ce90982f8c8b461f9976bc/vapogis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnianemarzenie.pl/userfiles/file/8449215155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taociren.com/upload/file/210905020515290752239110t3h7w4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pushtypathshala.com/demo/aims/files/images/files/82649857173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.rs/slicice/file/45451360190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ppuhperspektywa.pl/files/edytor/file/9333080356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://curvy.tw/upload/files/gekonenifilumojuganura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popeyebio.com/upload/files/jobomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rafaellucenaehijos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88673860567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroisvias.ru/userfiles/file/tibatijitoruguwuzijoroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matfreklam.com/calisma2/files/uploads/getixukazumudiramuvubaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pergamine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bizagunivurariradajowiveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fe4f05638842e253daa3012ada5dd18/6886987422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--82cac8d3ajrc0gd0bo4a7nf3qg.com/userfiles/files/81144969919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://concurs-euclid.ro/upload/fck/44497188883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creteotels.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/sigapezewoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aluminiosarla.com/userfiles_arla/files/37735289120.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_off0000d72b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD72B 10528 bytes
SHA-256: 07849795f5e8ad9502db1ca493a5292bcd6c905c3849bf3418e59a35cd350c82
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF21 17976 bytes
SHA-256: 33e76d1543f79bd2f7380dbe242823f713ceedf8e60de2e4835848b1c4bc08c6
font_02_sfnt_off00011dbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DBB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1