Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f06d15eab11d2859…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-07-14 04:48:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 53db7f72b4e971dd8f912d2bf456d98f SHA-1: ba1f3143c5183cbf76761844610731ee1ef7fa58 SHA-256: f06d15eab11d2859bb136edc6f5e21ccdfa321115db0dbb1a402a88d67c39481
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL structure and heuristic findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/33890009339.pdf
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/8278043966.pdf
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c639bd2f5d5---82995117757.pdf
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e11b395232---27052522423.pdf
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jb6kc4i3shq02olsqj2vaifbd5/dawabibilub.pdf
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/merago.pdf
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac99d003fa9---21668677434.pdf
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abf7833700c6e7be9f490780fb645a80/memegedinunewiwesivuz.pdf
    • https://electrabicycles.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16203562369638.pdf
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c051fb2b64c---xujigeresotejizugozi.pdf
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce60a19426---24802748622.pdf
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/38176672402.pdf
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/008ba598cf899722a8b0a800832a9fa5/76864204509.pdf
    • https://1877painters.com/FCKeditor/file/suwozumovibedudetadaxax.pdf
    • http://westernmaki.com/uploads/files/61851343401.pdf
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/xejexotigofakun.pdf
    • http://djapm.com/userfiles/file/4137879853.pdf
    • https://easybuildapp.com/files/uploaded/files/24817765195.pdf
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c062bf9e0---kimiratitowafufan.pdf
    • http://grandwatergatehotel.com/upfile_hotel/files/pibit.pdf
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d32a89196f2e82d6ce2eb65bef52bea7/63000984749.pdf
    • http://tipsclubcr.com/campannas/file/19942629591.pdf
    • https://schmitz.cz/res/file/74166781280.pdf
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m8bapggb51qijue24tt1ussh71/vovikosulisoxusegisofuzid.pdf
    • http://longhornrings.com/clients/0/08/08da48574b41509ac7bedcf2500dc652/File/kawobijazap.pdf
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b66287a533---sosorapujaxewonap.pdf
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a638f004c---fiwiximidiw.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=is+pltr+overvalued
    • 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_off0000f50a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF50A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010d1c.bin
57e6c899b46ac0a64ab7cd8f532cae4bd64ae3949c5fbf00854224d2b7e047be
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D1C 17652 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013bb1.bin
a1ddee5fee8872ba4316e8683533f3bd3bfcee06a0c874a4ad1b55c8b6041075
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BB1 10308 bytes