Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3d0ea363f19bfed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

123.0 KB Created: 2021-11-11 22:58:33 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: ad0191fd18fb385f7bf918b0095083cc SHA-1: c054124bf1081b0ed03b5db6eb5fbf9868d6f53c SHA-256: f3d0ea363f19bfed28cbbdd1494df475409bdb29275576f7d97a5980302dff7f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous external URLs, several of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://kcpsystem.com/userData/board/file/87197243370.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615eec977adca---torelun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daoltrading.com/userData/board/file/dabumerejavivofumapopujid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomrerjm.server2.dk/userfiles/file/48541078035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spharma.ua/files/file/limopufobuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://versobrokers.eu/userfiles/files/nosimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelrealerimini.it/userfiles/files/xeveneliwuxibarimivexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chambredhotes-savoie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bowunebijibedosepatax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90afqerdlt1f.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/govuzid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://border-collie.ru/sites/default/files/file/vibibuwaparozufugowovusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferado.vn/userfiles/file/42124022751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://predial-rua-nova.pt/056-CovadaLua/images-editor/file/7409182539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shidoremicrosys.com/media/jegesasikekojiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemalipics.com/24721097532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayhancevik.com/images_upload/files/zebasiluxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rt-totaalafbouw.nl/userfiles/file/mopamatirofivunitubanodut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3572dr1fok1svghpkcujgk29f3/32010160395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biharlokmanch.org/userfiles/file/60033464866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/egqfs9g9v0tr197q43lcsad3ak/tojatini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jainfarms.com/uploads/lemivogusitasos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detaycopymatbaa.com/userfiles/file/13263232825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MbOu/~3/7xhmvLXWVJc/uplcv?utm_term=the+bunion+kingPDF 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_off000181b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x181B7 10108 bytes
SHA-256: d515bc3c716e8d92192545c0e04d4ce0f143985dd149b18825505a37e88b42ff
font_01_sfnt_off00019820.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19820 17996 bytes
SHA-256: e2eff80350f74b737451f2b5c999173749462e6d1c46013866c487dc3cf7d059
font_02_sfnt_off0001c701.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C701 16540 bytes
SHA-256: 45015263e28dbf00792e0fa83ae0fb9123af5110209f191c00797c49350166ef