Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de0d9eb52e4c45fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 23:03:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: beaf0db47c9b6aa6941b7167139627f7 SHA-1: adceb328ace1cef139be41442cd8fd47475121ce SHA-256: de0d9eb52e4c45fef00c172568a758aaf87c6e20c7d36383f19617019067cf97
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics indicate a pattern of using these sites to host or link to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, likely serving as a lure for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://good163.cn/Uploadfiles/files/nimegavapezujepanijonum.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24face5b67552a697d4c595d7f863110/noponuzoxuram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aroma-es.red/yamituki-n/uploads/files/77547754095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/me3mgd60vtl8ofki33p4ojokjr/relegilemaxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k2m9tlojgjd0rlremamf4fckcb/67414112874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hosvagyok.hu/userfiles/file/bunozobexefebum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okzawidow.pl/img/upload/files/betuwopubuxilifudorixaruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/80139894235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmawell.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dadodixafanozed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/karenovarisatetalem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b53531e8a6eb086a66567e50ae11abe/90005671301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15fratrowreunion.com/clients/2/2b/2b18ccadde375fd95e9ac2d5db5aaa67/File/latifabozokosaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.161.111/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sogejobasoxapujud.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.tsahimmongol.com/uploads/images/files/vupatenizagedaruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijpdua.com/contents//files/mimijikogogavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf729958efb9d93ac422b19978513989/24168791733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607383f812659---31466002690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zlato-stribro-investice.com/upload/files/737323392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/62260054170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078aded54755---59112597375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a38aad03539c2628627a945485fc4d92/takedafaxogiwexinuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00602aa04308cf8dc17944e0037fa690/78839591149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backupcenters.com/userfiles/file/76440043850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5dade17e70---73413485310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruresept.ru/files/file/38583241085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=paid+sick+leave+laws+by+statePDF 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_off0000e3a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3A6 18484 bytes
SHA-256: 19bbd488da56edf4d9f0449b47f7ad3419876f52da1db86f232e9ffb804d8ff8
font_01_sfnt_off00011242.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11242 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A59 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 4d02a4b9bb971dc8cb2b91c91a4accb096b21923202b763e4b5422f9739ccdb6