Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0adb38247508d0c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 18:37:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8216cac2b2d5da6b32dd5a38a1f26bf3 SHA-1: 5d8fb9705d64ab5a9afc38fe52d566500c84c078 SHA-256: 0adb38247508d0c6cdf05341de1b4cec92a4341a483e429287cfc55ac36a7438
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 URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL heuristics and AV detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://fructusartis.com/i/File/gowugujolinobefumiguv.pdf
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/58524461267.pdf
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eedac4a7da---mudonaluwusulajagowusovi.pdf
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbbf21fc74657227f3065efb5014511e/gawazoluwixi.pdf
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab6c6556b21---32122903396.pdf
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160909e0938f36---75017550768.pdf
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3431834fa6e14c348ee50b0d4dee43f/xedebegavurove.pdf
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7cb6e67f29---rafubegabireganawad.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0d91a223ad---turoluner.pdf
    • http://mastervgtour.by/var/upload/file/23432534448.pdf
    • http://farashimirooz.com/files/kedinepukiduvogu.pdf
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e86esnj1lafu1tklna6ar0lc3/newexabimigabu.pdf
    • http://kiuanai.com/userfiles/file/jilexemozawabosexamig.pdf
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160827f3fe5edd---39433274854.pdf
    • https://riolospettacoli.it/filesUploads/file/netamemugawurox.pdf
    • http://cyklo-sport-servis.cz/UserFiles/File/1956408267.pdf
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qk0u3scosncfh0m2o56vefl9ss/viwenokifaxabazonagu.pdf
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160818ea16fdf2---74667984842.pdf
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/28931753163.pdf
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l4j8r0h3eciougs0anobauu772/sikejelonaw.pdf
    • http://singer-island-condos.com/userfiles/files/gamopuxupelowotiz.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=crysta+on+road+price
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d032.bin
d7aff939a98daa24abb4192863e7bbc86b5f4ed45ad2c764178e0e1f83407110
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD032 17164 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd84.bin
38ec434b895fc678f33c1051e1d6803ecba96598bd676babad26fa910f0a4993
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD84 10604 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000115ef.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115EF 16792 bytes