Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0b7e6a942c4805c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-09-20 22:59:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: cc1db57f090d0a661f809b50854a8d4b SHA-1: 4c0f1df1eefde78ae9dbce92d0c8d76341df5df2 SHA-256: d0b7e6a942c4805c7482dccb85b662b9faebcbf39fcf3a89f9fb92e0a4d132c1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, some of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 http://okzawidow.pl/img/upload/files/34894520756.pdf
    • http://kristiankutschera.de/userfiles/file/woveneluzikosixusew.pdf
    • http://orderleesushi.com/uploads/files/55468140411.pdf
    • http://naitikfashions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89647713218.pdf
    • https://ferropula.hr/files/geweputelipadaga.pdf
    • https://www.profiemg.cz/upload/ck/files/91696962005.pdf
    • http://fazekaskozpont.hu/images/upload/file/21827159156.pdf
    • https://detskeihriska.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29851944486.pdf
    • https://kebecelectrique.com/upload/editor/file/62024360951.pdf
    • https://dolaodong.com/userfiles/file/sufesawigeninajegumej.pdf
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f46410ad94---ditowebit.pdf
    • https://valeaflorilor.ro/img/uploads/file/ruvapajodifetukubofaza.pdf
    • http://rc-modeller.se/images/file///gegaxezilijimapirukog.pdf
    • https://www.sexualaufklaerung-schule.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35354333438.pdf
    • https://delcinfo.ru/img/files/files/44040432478.pdf
    • http://registermycompany.in/admin/userfiles/file/sipopileloverofada.pdf
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fe489f01ba---58280262711.pdf
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137c207a4e85---seserubul.pdf
    • http://neoneofytou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2379056502.pdf
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e302bedd0dbf1194766c41017124624f/70078742854.pdf
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30c5a4a9b3f4b72352c0dc4731dac34b/7291892745.pdf
    • http://15881588.com/ckupload/files/42446202448.pdf
    • https://www.autopsrus.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43872886620.pdf
    • http://baove24h.org/upload/files/83042629110.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=instatake+apk+download
    • 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_off0000d229.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD229 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea3b.bin
f55184494caa1502b68d5086c379ab4a62f4264742a791819bb7f71c1b2ddccc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA3B 17868 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011837.bin
46533a7b5f2de1a0b048472d9dd92d00b8196980da7f7fdbe7fea07958a26128
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11837 10324 bytes