Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0484bb0d7d9b0bca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-07-26 15:14:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 19b9527066484adabc5b4f16b870d904 SHA-1: 5b665b7be5e8e40e48df11d1f92962f450d1654c SHA-256: 0484bb0d7d9b0bcac4909841c144c0cb6687f0b7ccbc5476a70ff0d268296a78
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n2itl8be5tqfjmqaks9i6e81qf/62251986784.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://eventcompany.org/clients/e/e3/e30ef11cf4efe639fe6592aa37b9cb94/File/bazajega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d1fe2361a9---wodoburesufikozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyperasp.net/userfiles/file/wuvivofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160ec9d1b9bc75---samug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a226bc00569---53659426217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davebakeragency.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c1440e1030fc8fb588e5ab9c6a36c19/wagizer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f72d9f94f9f396805672e6578472427f/zoxirar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1b9332a650d527ad57eb196f325a333/wumixenazajef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beachfirebrands.com/userfiles/file/2693668587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazosilikatnn.ru/uploads/files/fegifudadubuninunigotevux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac21360ae98---besuzeguladivoripesuxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae7bb775a74---24445645586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084733d7d13b---jifijosikuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prcomponents.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tizezepazexugaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/884f88869b623c0a4102453fae1bfe03/tepibudisofaxenerijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bahattinburyan.com/userfiles/file/worimijebaredolokate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aj-freight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pezopod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160935487ad59c---moxites.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87532c4b7539d5550749eecd60472fb3/78490754884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160827d5d11288---21125398570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prograsifkalip.com/files/denajotijekefit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=ana+maria+maqueo+ortografia+y+redaccion+para+secretarias+pdfPDF 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_off0000d128.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD128 18756 bytes
SHA-256: 9a37440ca1618c13f749b1b10cf4458b4be3f07c8646b49d795648b3c33d2a3b
font_01_sfnt_off000100e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000118ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118FF 11260 bytes
SHA-256: 57c6a5cc8744fcc90b00ae826cbc4f76dc0ff35ab3db1642e2214ea3287609de