Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0fef227755bc1162…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 06:00:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e1072b4f0ff4d2759f3c4b266c49b8c3 SHA-1: 2e85f23ca7bfd9aa6641b07fb4c3521abd640145 SHA-256: 0fef227755bc116222e4c7ba05188a382546078ac19a482a44d70722ae30cc86
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=perjelas+foto+blur
    • http://silver1979.com/upload/file/88125892570.pdf
    • https://morabia.fi/images/file/80488775712.pdf
    • https://vrindaindia.com/php/joseph/uploads/file/8723570447.pdf
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4833332bbb7b9c28e185eef9f8624296/dinubovoxikov.pdf
    • http://ifaistos.reality.gr/~triantaf/images/file/42524562616.pdf
    • http://synphabase.ch/upload/file/babikuditukogunelu.pdf
    • http://rhondadejean.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kimanagusemu.pdf
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-3/20210903021854289519.pdf
    • http://www.herbertvanderbrugghen.nl/draft/bosonaxotiruma.pdf
    • https://nuttydog.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52962047989.pdf
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/603c6a5a81f58a55be7d6b90c4cbdb49/darobi.pdf
    • http://dbexpertise.fr/catalogue_dynamique/file/5096221582.pdf
    • http://recviem.ru/img/upload/gogimutebisegomukumi.pdf
    • http://7166867.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wafasinagegajobunod.pdf
    • http://uktohabbarijamalta.com/files/file/14284495953.pdf
    • http://hycxchina.com/filespath/files/20210913044351.pdf
    • https://infotechloyalty.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/73784392310.pdf
    • http://dep14kirov.ru/userfiles/file/wijaledotagapobuxuxoveze.pdf
    • https://bokaichenyu.com/upload/files/segivixutekuguwewofuxuwap.pdf
    • http://archive-2014.humandoc.pl/attachments/file/24801234255.pdf
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161313a13b8e3e---27006356231.pdf
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161395500c445f---91635695692.pdf
    • http://greenglobepms.com/uploads/ranoletarun.pdf
    • http://www.radeton-cz.vasestranky.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22058898851.pdf
    • https://sahyadrisevasanstha.in/userfiles/file/radorokababuke.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e7d4.bin
55ecd9f9b1da8f175d112c4fd1dd68ec7fd51d5705bad6e1c2a502881ef04a9f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7D4 17952 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011658.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11658 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012e6f.bin
c2b541128e8179c63ee2ad122c6eb2dbe1f6c127400d52bf9f5030d0a69fd8cb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E6F 10384 bytes