Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d059a09ee8abc164…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-15 21:58:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 3a9b4ddb301d2a7a1ec9129bed1f76cc SHA-1: 65ae43d05420ca7510347a2ed61b96d3b23907db SHA-256: d059a09ee8abc1641728feb06171628c412bb6f28e830c04658ebcc7890c9174
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 are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bowling+game+3d+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://unleadedcoffee.cz/soubory/13415477024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osmed.cz/app/webroot/files/files/dujovuravedusafolipob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henghuitong.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210908212726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsa.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/berarariluzuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larustt.com/upload/ckfinder/files/70306807595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021091323381697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd40cad366efd9e4ddc9273fdf9e0051/13558755938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161342b4f79a54---25417402597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmart-express.com/demo/uploadpic/file/nizodefinujaxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderkai.com/uploads/files/69386516868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplorium.su/userfiles/file/28878300067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refakatci.net/userfiles/file/rijakaligu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138d365c3d8f---17557513481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnnycc.org/userfiles/file/37253973720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myoffice2561.sesao33.net/UserFiles/File/6431751402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dominant.name/userfiles/file/65368750473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a49e0afa30---8816763133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naviway.su/upload/files/55242816278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maharajganjtimes.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/terowon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vnnc.vn/img-hdmedia/files/bilunamizonof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scsytech.com/upload/files/36829225689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datavincity.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/defimusedutovavotovomizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erex.hu/upload/file/80014656029.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_off0000d6b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6B9 17456 bytes
SHA-256: 602f39ca49fb754cd457eba327926f89eec823d998350f0f2ace0919b65005b3
font_01_sfnt_off00010451.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10451 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 5a543ec403a35304ac53730509eacea26ea59d23f570211393193453976bc628
font_02_sfnt_off00011cdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CDB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1