Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0481a23a8d093aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-07-21 05:31:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 8ef2eda6a3658546544bab5cbf049d63 SHA-1: cbf517ceac426820ca05c82da9fbda3fb173776f SHA-256: d0481a23a8d093aa875e3660270afccfac82b51805612f9256ecba3216914179
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to lure victims to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://hotelexpert.ro/uploads/files/99920884829.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074431e4d9db---zenerudadukam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hubbardfamilycircle.com/clients/62940/File/gamezusometo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/vimoxivobedobijusadel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aan9csggj9nh9kps1c233l6rdu/60811845651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weingut-suppan.at/files/suzotopapomepagafumuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/32151541337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608768106d432---sidipidufurozakoludesib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb613c5d101---muwugimobesin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panyuchen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/56766025007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3asoft.vn/img/files/7669076713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/15757619943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a607e61aaeb---teliminukidikopiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a7b827484f464f9d353dfbb8c0a7446/89722722914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52b85bdbf139d55cc529def8b0c1c518/60159692821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a6897a867b---xoxusugago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephpowellfamilyreunion.com/clients/0/04/04c15d356d3082020e114f8c0300f46e/File/kepasubifegepudopof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surmounttravel.com/userfiles/files/880247592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160718764dacb6---mofufadopoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0468145ee6c8f8617ae03d40bd1adc52/musem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d521qh0s35q3iacom7v8bi73q5/xabalaguzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavaszitura.eu/userfiles/files/pibufovajokoseku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jairdefreitas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87414346111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheumst.com/upload/fckeditor/file/wojabapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelamadeustorino.com/userfiles/files/dezerag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ei-hotel.com/free_images/files/25624544343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4fa8468fbd---13927523569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+find+average+velocity+equationPDF 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_off0000ec7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC7C 10988 bytes
SHA-256: a66aa8dd10243d0af132f901ed97bbe4927db853ff2312e816e89dd1852476e5
font_01_sfnt_off0001059b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1059B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011dad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DAD 17812 bytes
SHA-256: 9d3355f6b1ac2847518c8a1ec4213bc953fa6a69f2382f7f75496ffabc385202