Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 daba05842c08ac0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-09-30 22:48:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 24069a3e48671d92c9a249188a09e100 SHA-1: 44b7499902170ed8845c0496666cdf8463f66d23 SHA-256: daba05842c08ac0faa7513a55de95abbd7ee0c1f1503d00635aeab7e5f44ba92
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to domains that appear to be disposable or compromised, as indicated by the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware through these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing content to analyze.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9837

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://lutechmed.com/Images_upload/files/19934895198.pdf
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/93703879201.pdf
    • http://xn--2osv9pt2jfpt.com/uploadfiles/files/zazemofozamitibofimu.pdf
    • http://www.iuoelocal870.com/kaizen/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nineju.pdf
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/welix.pdf
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78u33t6cgunfnmi8u0v0gha446/25631588417.pdf
    • http://younewstoday.com/task/userimages/file/zojunur.pdf
    • http://alde-pace.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95641289291.pdf
    • http://marinda.ru/pics/images/file/77012984907.pdf
    • http://dianacb.cz/userfiles/file/48882432428.pdf
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a11fc6d6f28cee9ee041a1ea29ff301/jeragerazowine.pdf
    • http://zhongguohuachun.com/d/files/72690078831.pdf
    • http://kredoteka.ru/uploads/file/donoxefosewalamutonajeko.pdf
    • https://hotelpancharatna.com/assets/userfiles/files/75745952366.pdf
    • https://krzczonowice.pl/gfx/file/86815184743.pdf
    • http://dynamic1984.com/user_file/file/lazafovumipaxi.pdf
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b18c393c3a---fodigaga.pdf
    • http://lamachine.nl/userfiles/file/votovekafo.pdf
    • http://enovosti.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jugixevawunuxedunazilip.pdf
    • http://jnejendomsdrift.dk/userfiles/file/82997284448.pdf
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143cb6ccc362---kipira.pdf
    • http://guides2alpes.org/uploads/file/36761042851.pdf
    • http://sriraghavendratemple.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58695547139.pdf
    • http://sportsbettingconsultants.net/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/modedejavelowaxotaxat.pdf
    • http://mutamobilya.com/images_upload/files/xulesap.pdf
    • https://www.piramideidiomas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53288282106.pdf
    • http://elskup.pl/images/assets/file/tajaxit.pdf
    • https://sibiucuratenie.ro/fckeditor/userfiles/file/fivobinifuvikopipi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=mulan+full+movie+2004
    • 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_off0000b431.bin
a69c6614c1cf3739d6ec8fc77c8366601fd71fa3fe2616941be3b43f18526a72
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB431 15176 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000da36.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA36 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f24d.bin
27a18e21f068bb0d68f80da99c7fa096f15afd29ee2a2c7f439dfe4b33e6c45b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF24D 10488 bytes