Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 600a5256cef063cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-09-27 06:49:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ad35830e98c3ac088820af47c5532f99 SHA-1: 067590865f8477f18aa233e4c542f9bb6d57ef3b SHA-256: 600a5256cef063cfdc756d54fba0070a28808e783c3f667d0b9faa6dae2da042
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to various domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external URIs and the overall structure suggest it's designed to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://www.huaikrachaohospital.go.th/assets/global/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94773804579.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kssi.ir/public/userfiles/file/juzutamusulemovurus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4yoga.by/pics/files/komefofebudas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traktor-tv.de/sites/default/files/file/87583809436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gilbertems.com/videos/file/puwekojaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-pluset.com/userfiles/8316414808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://testgit.begurholidays.com/uploads/userfiles/files/37734492823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://debo-fit.be/userfiles/file///vuguti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magerp.org/upload/files/24120680067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ore-processing.ru/d/files/mevupimulawatuwawor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avsa.org/sites/default/files/images/files/vebofezimodelamisegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614252b3dadec---wupitetajedibosodezivoliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwaretesting.kr/club/data/userfiles/file/20210912042051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocoils.com/img/file/79894366198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n3n14jm1cttmo1e5v005sft576/rakuralusepojana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teknis.it/userfiles/files/64555098478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plasy.com/uploads/file/19187739690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l1tqsp1vh3va0a9jb27pjso2rh/652333292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harekatmemuru.com/images/Media/files/24042313988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanlitech.com/files/files/tosem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac58bc11296f81004472bba8612df985/37052628902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibonatura.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87669570573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adom.biz.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nakamexovabireguzesijob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atl-50.com/files/file/dibewiwobajujif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=hotmail+sync+androidPDF 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://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_off0000b04f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB04F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c866.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC866 10504 bytes
SHA-256: ee2edeebcc16870bd703b25b2ece6177e862354b3a68a5e33e59051e81d16fda
font_02_sfnt_off0000e038.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE038 16724 bytes
SHA-256: 772be305ae409b3c9fdbdad9050e899d4aeac0f56c9d331be0e6f85e11025aca