Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0849b2bf59e1c86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-09-10 04:37:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: debbbf10fecdbf40e78e0a74e0b0705f SHA-1: 94fce7bc99ce23f50bf5968041473e8554fb1e6a SHA-256: f0849b2bf59e1c86163e8a34b95acf6f897c5122f5fa00f6d466f3349ea4fa59
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of malicious redirection tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161373d8690ed2---mukejesowakiruwej.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ski-experience-japan.com/images/blog/file/kejel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksnjl.com/userfiles/files/97992211471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makairways.in/home/makairways2017/public_html/dowalumniusa/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lavodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midel.me/userfiles/file/razotuxevimew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kagoshimakojintaxi.com/userfiles/file/tigurirojabojolesej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://di-tech.kr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/zixujimujoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sprostredkovanieuverov.sk/res/file/6291181020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viral-list-monster.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/46291772556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rarahil.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/siwuxizedesolafupapaxotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkm-lux.by/var/upload/file/36817794944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telegid.tv/userfiles/file/71959900866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auto-ecole-rive-droite.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bukoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amicissiapiemonteisa.it/userfiles/files/vafizuloridiponapalorir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highlander-inn.com/assets/userfiles/files/mipuvelobijakukoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://testgit.begurholidays.com/uploads/userfiles/files/panaregowebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4dd58d4d04f3ea8b2c65bcfccc3fd34/66926545307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jwconsult2005.com/file_media/file_image/file/80948038987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137346f5a1b6---61002343868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konyanincigkoftecisi.com/userfiles/file/34116579726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mineraux-et-lithotherapie.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/93467172202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaroyalenews.com/userimages/55998887002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shastriratanchatterjee.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63825353232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braindevelopmentmaps-org.neurondevelopment.org/userfiles/files/28201516413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=playboy+gold+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_off0000eed3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEED3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106E5 18448 bytes
SHA-256: a4c241514f3514736f279c58913998e4284eefe5b9f64902422d2506705760a0
font_02_sfnt_off0001378a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1378A 10236 bytes
SHA-256: 33cf62976332034f8c3dbad838052acd76b4d6185435ae8865177ae9947d6e2b