Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0c381b28f0486f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 13:17:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 148a98d98a7c8e1aa577c567d5c2324d SHA-1: 27ed13ec86198636baaeea5335e16ab926aa96d6 SHA-256: a0c381b28f0486f59ff98eeb8339837a9d31ca178d0af24b4dd34343c2625c4f
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 hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URI heuristics and compromised CMS upload links further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://www.sindafaz.com.br/admin/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33690606924.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlafilm.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/33960906323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoya-system.com/uploads/files/202109050523197728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cancunday.com/travela/img/files/51294323172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expresskaliski.info/file/32498289566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d726a42df6---nexuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bd6c1aba81---bijivenuzinuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tobn56.com/UpFiles/file/fefabukuwinodulidiwiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sapientgenerator.ru/files/userfiles/files/dulazexatagivigubojujuked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoteam.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74793886928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veewood.com/file_media/file_image/file/61947540936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acudrved.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38472042367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teraval.cz/res/file/bepofuzulisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lmtechsolution.com/userfiles/rupijirerawidulepetavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pneusmarene.it/images/file/nijumuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.somdattabasu.com/fckimages/file/55338429837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614230d549fd2---mativexiketefimubizatex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hirurgija.me/files/xurebebim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef91013cf28736223ffd229ed7cdfd48/bijanemisedatujox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northmarking.com/userfiles/files/8262161289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stin-verdon.fr/assets/Image/files/ledopuzesefalixolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salamino.pl/userfiles/file/26996993365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hojoairport.com/images/file/forujomedaxikobamonifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kitapkaplama.com/upload/ckfinder/files/jatezagemuduxiwajemuvufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=sync+hotmail+contacts+to+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_off0000bcef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCEF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d501.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD501 16492 bytes
SHA-256: 7c440d78330d679fe49bc679df4d1c838072d789446e7bc6f0a5c72384630818
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF49 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 91669be7e2c5d2e01a2eced57c90854f8062d8119d78064c4a35fc1dca3229f8