Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b0acdef14142d2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 22:51:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 425afa4b6f49ced58d64fc5f938db407 SHA-1: 892edb579a72ea3908d3be21eb1e6471154e9cc9 SHA-256: 0b0acdef14142d2b23254b7335477051a95537308b6cae571731f5d726058d0f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate it's designed to exploit users by directing them to potentially malicious external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://bodzlomu.com/userfiles/file/puvoditigugewupewuzobi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/pidomazoledad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pastelbuilders.com/userfiles/file/76231115590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iter5ui4g22o8gbtpf3424fdhi/jarulovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0c0df4769e---xoxatagekajob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081747842554---66736720777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beltamas.by/content/Files/kijiwiwewapuzopojetusadef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2oohb9oov343tfii4sjmruv25m/70372126192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redsky.tv/userfiles/files/85752668067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sardavetri.it/userfiles/file/34055853621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38a11bc873c4dab8f6541544542cf72a/nowibamelanerifasita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartickgroup.com/userfiles/27057677929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aguejfegacgj0ad.xn--p1ai/pict/file/70946652441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/dasesenamofiloxomalok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd595cb1f52d48fb8450b464906fbdb1/nikejalisulemoteleri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reflita.lt/uploads/files/ranofizelapawamumakonez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mientrungland.net/uploads/image/files/25944989680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aj-logistics.com/stock/userfiles/file/5650065676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tradingphrases.com/userfiles/files/57020012219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cb9941eec7e228bc2ecbc62e35c2355/wisulifepikaxipelos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a06e1531869---39563357464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residenceraffaellotorino.com/userfiles/files/87251671093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=a+manual+of+laboratory+and+diagnostic+tests+9th+edition+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_off0000c5ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5FF 17080 bytes
SHA-256: 2d0c353af7d34148af783e1b1259b9a0793284ec2ad5afdf8e1595941d4669ac
font_01_sfnt_off0000f265.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF265 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A7C 11568 bytes
SHA-256: 8c3a85684d7d9973dbb74f4acad9a9d392769a21cd4c4473223135aaaf0c1fb3