Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0a746e8801e3331…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-23 23:57:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: d06f050da1e9cad876c7e1fea489411f SHA-1: 317ac2ddd2b7950ce685fb15027d347a813f32c2 SHA-256: d0a746e8801e3331bab16dbb5ef83523526562fd9be6cc6dc876af4abd15efee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are flagged as compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the link farm structure is a clear indicator of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://rudolphalexander.com/uploads/files/dimubedululaxe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thumpamonpally.com/userfiles/file/kutozitelotokuxinaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c-amc.com/upload/files/vojusogul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulv-fogger.es/d/files/vubevujatokafoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jnvhardoi.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15842129299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sadex.pl/fck/file/nanenidipawadinenix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kenzoum.org/home/integrity/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21908457311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equinox-e.com/upload/UserFiles/file/70426367443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91e22814945db5a2eb0f0afdf117874d/3587316676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diegogenna.it/userfiles/files/molakuwimexedija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenearthgardens.org/userfiles/42576038633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novichiha.ru/pic/file/19429079871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aow.infogestnet.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55836554460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141e08d8338b---xojewelaxegilamibix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robfredo.com/userfiles/file/pesuvaniziveguxunipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicboxpiano.com/contentfiles/kidigoxadugusalubaxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-motorcycle.tw/upload/emotorcycle/files/98130960220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theloneranger.tv/clients/loneranger/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kalopuladuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dafcf43009---27851853770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdkuysuujk.handysociality.com/upload/files/26490985952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclameindex.nl/images/uploads/41153644522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvzriu.org/images/file/funuvonavigodemamaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ministerium.pt/files/87411385406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelihome.ru/upload_picture/kamaluxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=ant+man+and+the+wasp+yifyPDF 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_off0000cf9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF9C 10680 bytes
SHA-256: db75f27a2fa16c741236e3b12b9911fa86d88e02f5644088a6facd9f630e813e
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7FB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001000d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1000D 18700 bytes
SHA-256: 49a7be6b6cc6138edbf2e7a9c8b391f35ba674b53ed7908a7e60791267ad99e0