Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0081615c37fcfd9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

126.3 KB Created: 2021-07-06 12:55:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0c27ff12cd71b4839f9d82fcaa8fe49c SHA-1: e670663ec63f0d6aef944b42307a74bccdd267c5 SHA-256: d0081615c37fcfd96949c2212a2dbf55503640e8483c27d32ccf7dc93deba8e4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to lure victims to external resources, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=principles+of+teaching+and+learning+for+nursing+practice+pdf
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/gozokumonelew.pdf
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160daad4fdc348---22170938452.pdf
    • https://dm288.rs/slicice/file/kopejum.pdf
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021051700422673499.pdf
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6f30c7c61c---muvuwanerula.pdf
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/61909084815.pdf
    • http://mosvag.ru/img/lib/file/paxekapajez.pdf
    • https://rocksoliddesigns.biz/userfiles/file/lovudojasadidafexowipuxo.pdf
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/50684383739.pdf
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be88fe07387e9abc47165d8044fb44e4/tokevetanutananako.pdf
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ec8f461383821de445dc1e1b9e3284a/15924192167.pdf
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/kawuwudawipogawosabebefo.pdf
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad8d826375ee0161bd909292a383c280/vumimuxepajotivulax.pdf
    • http://soupworld.de/upload/file/tekipukenazupiw.pdf
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5eecab511c---demomuropedikilimexeva.pdf
    • https://btegypt.comfile/fozafawi.pdf
    • https://mdteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/polug.pdf
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a486db7cf29---4655558680.pdf
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0bee6c22d0---92471719463.pdf
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bffb692849---namirejuf.pdf
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/79329975623.pdf
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b317a01de48---pulafemo.pdf
    • http://watthaistuttgart.de/userfiles/file/tideperepajade.pdf
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6f1ffa4a13---kegab.pdf
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076202102b75---mimanisuvigoxil.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_off00018c3e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18C3E 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001a450.bin
37ab1b6cb64adb4a21a705f1d3394434cb1960f3d3f234a3db44bac8114ce24c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A450 17264 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001d186.bin
73143474e6c14fae039b03a7601fbf84e772c42e017364fa76c4aa4ace63d4f6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D186 11000 bytes