Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0017a0f9baf4c06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 05:46:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: fb31af1a3350ef3fc9effbc343c555ba SHA-1: 1db25e4c1ad16fd44ec041029d05523da605cb32 SHA-256: f0017a0f9baf4c063879ce2b12573da431b5ed1edc8885aeaf8c4cfa4a92a522
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for credential harvesting or further payload download.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 https://asiajitu.com/contents//files/72953251638.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/lefikekewuduzufujuzenasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e7163914a---99233082333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filippodelvita.com/demo/userfiles/file/zumanewabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/malanugozajorizoleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxqcgs.com/filespath/files/20210901225704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alacarte-design.de/userfiles/file/90337499665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c456765d3b26d3471ab8e6dd3cf44fa/tawokotiludopesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7f6b17d2c8---40188975039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalroomplus.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/bubixujonumidaxexana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ff6387489d6c42ea211d86215adaccd/nagovisowexuwijatuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sport-way.ru/img/file/90278818931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://german-ex.com/images/blog/file/24737435623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131a2e46f42d---xoluvobizirudekafereb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://almar-bus.pl/userfiles/file/limole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://collegium-connect.nl/ckupload/files/garazafomax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laihoawedding.com/app/webroot/upload/files/49198738947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalycity.com/wysiwygfiles/file/molovaguketerozam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9a98e81809---magis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fa77d7fc8e---totetonuneruromotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelamoha.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b987ee27843---galosafajiganobag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fc8510cc0c---kiwafogefawubirakaxutubas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clevio.biz/fckUpload/file/pudeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=muscle+fitness+workouts+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_off0000e6bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fed6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFED6 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 32752d05704248c648c8e2c5547e6caaeb85c2f0e0e8879df11d0a1d01ba01ab
font_02_sfnt_off000117a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117A8 18108 bytes
SHA-256: 5481d7c234e84b6decaa7069c504996d427538733e9ba18870cd05e8941bac3a

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