Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0cec98b0052086e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-13 07:14:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 7882c0c02cbd0048a2245a0eff75de96 SHA-1: b18e6f1c11e18385a0e73c2ac33fe464f2aac80e SHA-256: f0cec98b0052086eba143d6190b7a4a24f5a20cafe7641368337dc7178268ef7
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 WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=samsung+galaxy+s5+warning+camera+failed PDF link annotation
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7057fb3972931a31fe7a954e9bf02631/pupibixamivimub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nslogisticservice.com/userfiles/files/85325057395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jxlmedu.com/file/files/20210908_070558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e6dfe2ead624ccf036d3ae57e1873ff/zitepavopajez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nycsmindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51777478874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valgott.com/images/userfiles/file/68702664954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baloneacessorios.com/_upload/file///silajesamixonisakano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/78266345456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://associazionemusicaviva.it/uploads/file/ratisilisobobaxujitij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rh23tr183omvr68i6ga6rj1qi7/39001127648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papianiarch.it/userfiles/files/35628712040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://talenthunt.biz/userfiles/file/7020639658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samocvet.org/foto/ck/files/gilidagowotiruli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cherrychile.cl/cherry/uploads/contenido/files/52284714950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuehllawpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xobosabivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://woft-dining.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/63258414906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tdemo.order-pro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33236681197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cluboutletmoto.net/campannas/file/45583517595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detectiveoffice.net/userfiles/file/xeroroxemaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yarpb.ru/pic/userfile/13853077552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patriarca-batiment.com/ressource/site-image/files/lodefivenuwupumufoligixez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrabottero.it/userfiles/files/58009489457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iknow.pl/files/file/wonefasusutukisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e8cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000100e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100E4 11212 bytes
SHA-256: 896dc5b02633edaad2699c041d645efbafe9ad798d044f9f15707fbecd6009f6
font_02_sfnt_off00011aff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AFF 18492 bytes
SHA-256: d6c58344a2888fb4f0d81f72bf73ad3a4081a8f0acda2eccc6352b036fbcca8a