Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0b218bdeb9f36b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-09-30 16:35:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 3db35426cf3b13be02001836387180d6 SHA-1: a240c832dad5b6a51080dc3a55e918ca03030a2c SHA-256: f0b218bdeb9f36b6b6d13969861d90748ed7710e6168bdcfc101135e61f4531d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm, including links to compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to phishing or malware-hosting sites. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the link farm nature and high detection scores are sufficient indicators.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://alhasooncorp.com/Files/files/vilojuwesuwitepudijoxemud.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jogunalalapapomojibisin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mearesandassociatesllc.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/3630322059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://escaletravel.com/userfiles/files/1044189011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiuanai.com/userfiles/file/37685417386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istanbulballoons.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24583769999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pantanalmsnews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74815078247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavibusiness.it/file/89150057387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e57b6af4417ff3216046e3f2c5a1c55a/sujekik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutritie-metabolism-sanatate.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/sebomagebabaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5af1d5ad5af16e4dd0b117a34b07333/762884244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsm.hk/images/uploadfiles/file/maniju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katachizu.com/img/news/files/55713606495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motopujcovnateplice.cz/userfiles/file/12123618447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b87364314428ecf8fd71eb97c9acb0f/35296742066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/josubopagokava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eksiliotomotiv.com/upload/ckfinder/files/78601458217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141db0573857---mazamezurubigivezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faw-asia.com/image/upload/files/xerilago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://curvy.tw/upload/files/pukixisebunideg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twinmd.ru/userfiles/file/ritujevexosuderib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jakspravnenapsa.cz/userfiles/file/96053019002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mvmdigital.gr/files/files/tuvajidasovisodano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meandnetworking.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/toridutegerogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4k3klk3eqv79r5jlnk8a072b43/13151212319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=tap+titans+2+cheatsPDF 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_off0000b4a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4A7 16388 bytes
SHA-256: 16fe7ea4e5d0ff906fc6e42c7838bfeef2a0265efac061fd395e71a7e666f3b2
font_01_sfnt_off0000de61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE61 10288 bytes
SHA-256: e90bd4e95e59467f214adae0b8fab095981f2a29efee8333d375ea13da3ed204
font_02_sfnt_off0000f597.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF597 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1