Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0293cc45e66e208…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 00:56:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: bad1f215712b2e74ed2efdc654df058f SHA-1: 86aec49687858922f87650f0f5e3b7287649c909 SHA-256: d0293cc45e66e20863e427ddaa7d11b83005dfc4735ad46983e0656dbebb709d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a malicious document designed to lure users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://wildarium.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68559523065.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bisenzia.it/userfiles/files/ginesogofunamaradaduji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiozammuner.eu/userfiles/files/71526824953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42cec34328100d328afbd2d3ced669ca/nubobevapitazoxigemujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2478361cbd---natenasikabovujapekivova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57fe475678812925f3261568fd988399/rofusegigolerilawaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083327bb7766---gexojugolatitufodiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brahmagnanam.org/fck_uploads/file/59415393976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syteq-pro.com/userfiles/file/wilaratumepeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8367688b74502d90eba2e0387a615ce2/fetujuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residenzaeden-albisola.com/userfiles/files/liverujozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/45262546357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a4860f1b3---majobamixegozuwusudepakez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ncabhsa.com/clients/875427/File/sarawagufamib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extracam.es/app/webroot/arxius/file/wigogakaresisavudaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://silky.ae/images/bulk_images/files/zabirisavoruvopabifite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaziemirkentkonseyi.com/upload/files/2222365249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baobianhkhang.com/upload/files/gugame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaydunghoangthanh.com/img_duhoc/files/sofokaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catequesisnavarra.org/guiarte_userfiles/files/8834416591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cargotavio.ru/files/file/58992546867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160884a71e774f---28279457641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/feanc2kipg6jus37ehlinmn77a/82859041462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamedunyasi.com/calisma2/files/uploads/zegiveruzuviwosewafigetom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=anchor+cross+stitch+patterns+free+download+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://zs.tom.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dunegojititagesaru.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_off0000bb0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB0E 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 01a53ef98ae3f3bbf39eb1e66d45ade27f1eb84ba980221af962970ba58bc8f7
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3F6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC08 17296 bytes
SHA-256: 50b7baa97921019b8672282089a8bd95b10fb12aa1fbdcc09bfcd743fb18db7f