Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0e888c451f9fcfa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-08-20 18:55:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 2817f48274cc9e4edd37decc0fb6aaba SHA-1: 39234080c9273480021dfc61ae79ff1a878f9ee1 SHA-256: d0e888c451f9fcfa90ef6e89b012ef8d821c132ae3436c4b72fc84b39de40614
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or redirection strategy. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL heuristics point towards a lure to external content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://darec.sk/files/files/37785579584.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://smwiarus.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ralifisuvekonudulajafiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1agaa2anfqdp.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bulitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philipp-haberland.de/images/upload/file/7849076945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farmstead.tw/farmstead/upload/files/basixulibefijizotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76440487501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipea.kr/userData/board/file/gaxapegadagigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ced3f140557---2178062009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebre.com/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/rawaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lscapital.it/images/file/puwuwotiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/rinaponesanibaxedujuwaxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marthomaiticherukole.com/userfiles/file/61058311235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f07875881a---41468238811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a783e4b68ff---noxufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607506888d48d---gegira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohappy.org/userData/board/file/2720355174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/499fe92fb6efee6d57ce46a70920d066/dosakumumorigolirubuzelul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/tesir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161107d53a62c7---fizawutosipirigulavuvif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101-games.ru/images/uploads/files/37975563261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--989ap7r0xbd5x.com/upload/fckeditor/file/40014443070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/602e741477afe581ee93cbb23c77bca9/zilazuvozinidij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i7s6j449mhq7nnr7tdgjlj3j53/62432178337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=le+roman+de+flamenca+pdfPDF 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_off0000cb8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB8F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3A6 10380 bytes
SHA-256: 91fc803fced0e3ae9628d3ba95004544a1c91d4dd7c37a81c6de40e682a9da80
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB06 18460 bytes
SHA-256: f9ba68447683cda8af0efe6286addeee00772fa2fbef96049703d08e724588c8