Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 000b0e0c86ed45e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 08:10:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 1b297be717558ad975c6c288131e28ec SHA-1: 552fb455eb0353972ca763da41f42261017a0bd8 SHA-256: 000b0e0c86ed45e6cdceadbb092ba6e53ed0d576a1b195ce3eecf822935e2c71
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to numerous external URLs, with several pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and the use of UTM parameters suggest an attempt to manipulate search engine results for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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 https://drsaman.com/files/66497459314.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hutbephottaihaiphong24h.com/upload/files/resexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avvocatoboretti.it/file/50634021764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070480aa62ee---mafarafiliruxinujizot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rlangkhan.com/upload/userfiles/files/gesawowovumavinep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dffe831b21f9a4d04fe9fad47dbdb4c/fojalebadikezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kqcme.yiaiwang.com.cn/upload/files/tetevuketopesif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://norilskgu.ru/userfiles/file/mazokemikewugilodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakdekkersindex.nl/images/uploads/xubad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcc0b861678---tixumiboserotixuluvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ecc1469bac550434852b9c1cfeb0e32/vomugote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolphinsolutions.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lujuwebinawudirimom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3226e8a4b7ce84be1ec3625db0d3cc8/20260799670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd0f78b3427---80493677180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f731c3b87---xuduted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopsuathientu.com/uploads/userfiles/file/75436998726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbcom.eu/ressource/site-image/files/69352289015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salondebellezaanamariaromero.es//ckfinder/userfiles/files/41910570438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foodzipo.com/uploads/userfiles/files/31800004046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamjagolla.com/uploads/files/fedorobibazabimuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novsport.com/content/File/vatusirutipukobov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwnta.com/userfiles/file/wixamiwevipenererimuvul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lidiyageorgieva.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/poriloremef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonazero.es/userfiles/file/kexoramewezew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9e58a21e5b1b8b416ea04134b09aeac/71145748509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=ready+for+cae+teacher%27s+book+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off00012666.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12666 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013e78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E78 20544 bytes
SHA-256: 376729139fa029555a65ef4d8bd176840f8033b07c7e0e69fd429b41f1e64466
font_02_sfnt_off0001743a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1743A 11136 bytes
SHA-256: 0b2f06d1ef38a387419e306d7ec62a6a9c0cb9ce299b95988a7512c833341666