Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00bd4a43c994c078…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-07-31 06:44:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 6174bce04385daa823fa3a30d2cf710d SHA-1: a15f8fb74487974a9f46bb768e1b5177559bc427 SHA-256: 00bd4a43c994c078b6b6cf845c5a39ed7ddb8b476ff96b5cbc2376b2a3bc70be
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ce34e151b98d42011f1c0e8fbf8fc94/filoja.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://klubalfa.org/img/userfiles/file/90600567382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/867481eb400df9fcc8803394c9cd95c1/padetotobefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chistogood.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15781659622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aec6592eb4c---14234698309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba35e52f361---94294915670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ae26de308---rapumatitivej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072fbe7256e1---24968734387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiskreunion.com/clients/b/b4/b417c2091670ce0b0d78f4b231aea02c/File/zoful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosconi.net/userfiles/file/18130213756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingegnasrl.com/userfiles/files/mozulalejikuzanujoxofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rugsinc.in/UserFiles/files/rukosaliralujariz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/fogudikevisubudiris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093900e5e7dc---19628972001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ab1c567c1---250890640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8281634b096bb0655a9a603c050be381/talabugazixuzude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedule-plachty.cz/files/file/jineboraworuwajaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f7c031ad5---70231674190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/79813926855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b08f8e73113---12132556426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessie-vinylcare.com/file/63483493376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2f6bb3ceec---34057884563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc5e7ce28a239559ecdacd3076d2a17c/97707028436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staractivecollection.com/resimler/site/files/wepibulodipiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/368b66d5837da9b51b4ba38abfc20a6c/jesetidugulakobedazazufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+identify+my+ford+ranger+transmissionPDF 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_off0000fae6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAE6 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 464b320b21dbebffe6f4784406eb5c9ec946b5eeb6ca33940ff2e57501e9f2bc
font_01_sfnt_off000113b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113B7 17072 bytes
SHA-256: 3f5d90fca07ae2b0dc5f98d339ce5fe805a8fa3f39e739069aa9cf7f65725ff1
font_02_sfnt_off00013fe2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FE2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1