Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0116d1aa4319519…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-20 03:59:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: cde90e6e95fec6daa30a3ac1af5c043e SHA-1: 6a646b46b1ecf2870074e5322f5ee4def2afab14 SHA-256: a0116d1aa4319519fd1f8976b71f3b037c17c8ee3510130faf4a098c74712553
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+legend+of+zelda+breath+of+the+wild+apk+download PDF link annotation
    • http://gomsuhoangminh.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/tumosajirubanixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8280f73c7c72c356b56832f8b210c3c/zukipafebinuvelomoguga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoangphatdanang.com/uploads/image/files/87853134941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hongdung.vn/ckeditor/images/files/bubopegitumabag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/45229675052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://badaranquehablar.com/userfiles/files/zazibelowojegufozuzate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansing.nl/userfiles/file/lagabelolubomedawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bfd96bb951---9992123591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/banasegipiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjhywt.com/images/upload/File/68802556812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pui-vital.ro/msg_media/file/18670625585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2hmf6ajeltuv2ug8bfhma5bn2/numopevasudunati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://8njl.com/userfiles/files/58296163623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecableapp.com/FCKeditor/FCKimgUpload/file/49699319872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://damnoen.com/ckfinder/pho/files/pamarepubadugasaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsultantrading.ae/userfiles/files/lokuzilaronodujebed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsverano.com/UserFiles/File/voxoxilimafafuzapirek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hamzakocakoglu.com/userfiles/file/46906840432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://varvshistoriska.com/file/nujulaweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiantms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fopegevuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhleisure.com/ckupload/files/93014150617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxilitomerice.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4853618879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yushendesign.com/images_fck/file/1631472507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27s065b642cc8ekld2dhohjue3/lavoxidekefiwowazabimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sartor.ru/upload/files/divokekevetefawenujokaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tgroupsrl.com/userfiles/files/vuzevosexiwexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctyhoanongangiang.com/userfiles/file/zekutemujulus.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_off0000db78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB78 10952 bytes
SHA-256: f0e802b7c9f432aa62d78a2c3f6e385f847877eb6ad4a79168929b7a05266687
font_01_sfnt_off0000f46c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF46C 17580 bytes
SHA-256: bd4821802f20155c90ccb2bb0a4ecb54762941e38ca9048db55daafc735a9675
font_02_sfnt_off000121a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121A3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1