Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00b4bc772a9f8436…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-07-05 17:33:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 8a607e7c0cd1d776f4395d57c1da8f52 SHA-1: b4903eccd8174d178e22fc7c01d0bbaf956d35bd SHA-256: 00b4bc772a9f8436f9199ca9e4026a16375553230a7e355b4f7efa0544f6531d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide direct clues to its purpose beyond its structure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=angles+of+elevation+and+depression+practice+worksheet+with+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db3d6b968254fd093ca24acf0b376605/39603710055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db64f3d0ad---rebuwuwiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j1medical.com/uploaded/file/32178326847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5fc8264c0d145d12e9a6c67845e43b8/15957791923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afmiletisim.com/resimler/files/mutixurizul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a09011ee05---ditajubirugina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8e9faa7ea08ddc3dc0779fffd6a6f12/18477212832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769355ec2b7---40031057723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b787735eb6---19650814719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23frn5apt79irrl0l8s4jg5jgc/65666414332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30e3d4424f52883fc042619b1c038055/44016212664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/mufulixuduxibokusoziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5ac91ee78b---76855186212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4dbe42cb48---nipozidon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakajima-ya.com/upload/save_image/files/42438844768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160936dd050258---30024719851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6559ef0f2a9153d862a5612f5ec8224/21508845611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/mulifiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/pudigulux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d9a42eb526---kuvajibokizedum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puzynowska-kancelaria.com/userfiles/file/xitizaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ns2fpg3is3s0d1sem52bshs1i/jivikove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a3a0d50b4---xewajuzidugazetez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160702d4e241d9---magibemivijowapake.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_off0000b8f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8F5 11124 bytes
SHA-256: 9bfdff6110ca86d06de680b13fd9c02bb03eeca15816ac324954ad26fc6e1bab
font_01_sfnt_off0000d2c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2C8 15172 bytes
SHA-256: ffcbb34971497e2457a5551ec5eeda0716db8683fabd0dde2e52b996b758d3cd
font_02_sfnt_off0000f98b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF98B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1