Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f00e24be42d5f58f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-10-03 09:27:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e62248646e62cddaa83cdc9c662f0959 SHA-1: 83ccdfef021c8ca3dedc9f006d1a30e7f430dda2 SHA-256: f00e24be42d5f58fef94b5acd62d43e1f3124050e6206c7b3d202bea2de2745c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing or redirection attack, likely intended to deliver further malware or lead users to scam pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://go-pxl.com/uploads/files/78860215608.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://re-media.ru/foto/ck/files/54619650043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614d7a431b0a3---66661792571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triatlonbizuterie.cz/sites/default/files/file/21232722570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medica-brno.com/files/8046921084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mlmrockstars.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9816691889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0965818789.com/CKEdit/upload/files/98055017857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongchangkj.com/uploadfile/file///2021091008123910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksiclubcom.ksiclub.org/svnprojects/DHD/Source/images/files/pixibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lscapital.it/images/file/68829914391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbchistoryonline.org/uploads/file/luzusijok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asztromiskolc.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32317728711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bighost.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/78294732538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140ac23b202b---latujabisivibaduwube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bramfordgc.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/badezofuxikomavibogetob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanipro.ma/app/webroot/uploaderfiles/49237216074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/10760956110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614acdf0e7a0f---xobaxodemizekidajijox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evopizza.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sapokumusawivisipubuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitalenzyme.com/uploads/fckupload/file/13239045792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615102d1a9598---42255942011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=shadow+fight+2+unlimited+money+max+levelPDF 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_off0000af1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF1B 16756 bytes
SHA-256: dc83eb829ddf7be8a2baff124ecdea50018e80f188a9d045b1c007ba73f25647
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9E8 11196 bytes
SHA-256: d3bd7ac4973c4d5ca64255b6d22d3a86ffc91888d2e6e2920207272f10732514
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1