Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a07c589384b8a6b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-09-30 22:57:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 1cc81f106fe6b1af0c818c132c2d7d21 SHA-1: 06a60105466f3015e4e637f1165828054d4dbd05 SHA-256: a07c589384b8a6b38c9f6df8dee61f770125c8907c8cb13d7f6f14f3a2a407fd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9940

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tubemaster+cho+android PDF link annotation
    • https://brazilairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8752174008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dallaslandscapedesign.com/media/files/51608005886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimcert.net/E/file/dimukadediri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///63224713614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d874342299cade76fd14aa6d01ac1d9/99918835229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lineshare.net/upload/files/20210907225811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xulynuocphangiathinh.vn/images/pic/file/juradunibomaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esebtekstil.com/resimler/files/zasinedapavonoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estatecambodia.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/83894759363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdhouse.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pidapilevelik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilot-nav.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53911158348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellar-toys.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muduxadapekitulofena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z-i-f.ru/userfiles/file/65169227725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stnedu.com/ckfinder/upload/files/12477607270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitours.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58089141895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adidravidar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4994942032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://streathamtaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/fefukigosifawikase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1c1fc9cbc454c807edd220307f4f67b/70994048812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://venusnvs.com/userfiles/file/zoderudori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridainvestment.cz/files/file/18854963384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614815f384e32---paxamaberumukiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/703ab4b7621583cc600f0642cf4f5633/8261322285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisaarkin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/50604020365.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b2bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2BD 20236 bytes
SHA-256: c54d3f15f07d49958cdc1f635c75e1b3b44e8d6765539ec123e8d3f3f3a2c8ac
font_01_sfnt_off0000e71d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE71D 10792 bytes
SHA-256: a5c7c2b1661986c5bec4b5c4dbd95f8122c352c7656daff6e59f7bb710b09317
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFC1 16188 bytes
SHA-256: 800554d3d6320da9c8ab21a3ad3d270f40e7a92360d7538c059d647d952d1d34
font_03_sfnt_off00011577.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11577 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1