Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f00ac85196a44f09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-12 10:29:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ed7924ae17e344e060169f3dc0afbd8d SHA-1: 63c643acd8428197c8dbe29065ca2ff99f6e88a4 SHA-256: f00ac85196a44f0970a56de71865e9f8d03d2b98b18337f69f85051dfa307d05
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of a QR code lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://ptkas.com/kingkong/userfiles/files/kibafujudus.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gcr.goldcrownresort.com/magazine_files/files/rawabuwixifipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sswjeans.com/files/94875433959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ac325bb8bd---takakajubisipubaxoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profm.hu/files/file/13688081621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tplustech.com/images/ckeditor/files/36453640076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b290c76761---84949311439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szjg.hu/images/file/12385433175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safarang.com/basefile/files/koketamijarobexejipaxadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nato-denkmal.de/uploads/file/42961578865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d1f9f19ee1---podagojolugukukeger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consulcongress.it/uploads/assets/file/rilabamiladusuxejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.cz/files/files/xezafovozozavufiwuxuguku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78994349408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/14638135149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a654607c30c24bb17f7f537f98946f21/72115251844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://havilahbuilders.com/userfiles/file/busekonodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d6e855cbb8---79065206746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/28475923832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://everest-c.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nedezopizej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613617007b8be---99194633962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radiopoint.cz/userfiles/file/saregakijozatituxijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velkoobchod-man.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52411400767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhtindesign.vn/uploads/image/files/82709534989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=photos+companion+androidPDF 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_off0000eb39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB39 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001034b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1034B 18480 bytes
SHA-256: e4f1f16db84f16d5c37ad825fe435e23e0678ae6dafc3371ed3abec320c9d3e9
font_02_sfnt_off0001337c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1337C 10600 bytes
SHA-256: cd83c0c91de2ae5a1ad3de6972ad98c7ea4aec047c34afe509c3a8d098ccae62