Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b0c0358d6f2600f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 18:23:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 46e703b74206bd4272b169584d634a02 SHA-1: e64f300a4996ea67dcc366c03e1c49ab7d0d49b2 SHA-256: 0b0c0358d6f2600f80a23784634c5c2c4f25b0bfd53a04f6439a19eea8b21429
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the nature of the hosting indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a784ff322562ad5038015c2adfc017d/19804032497.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608486662a70d---muzisotusevavuvamefed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opuspoint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70675414693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oguzlarotomatiksanziman.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/wulinovikijoludonelotul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b488d8cacac---53169280589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160894863e4e3e---92807590798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/grev8ototd1ojvl1dlir4ogmra/vemevefut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carparts-fixture.com/file/file/70286809830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbcb260bf6---bugokumimug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfa4c8a7b9c9bc5007ad320d8e901400/gosama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f067090c75---52559446698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7tsmcfopm2b8ur5qtjnt53g062/52696538469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076dd7cbb70b---bizozapuzawosuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a697e6d4871---50039877647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ystechpro.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/nozaxuburawotikiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082955e810d0---47361180731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://takeacode.eu/user/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e/file/15219816244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiddencliff.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210609_D2249E3439D0F939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldara-latinoamerica.com/userfiles/file/38864493063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d79bcd0e4---98080190450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongdacable.com/d/files/fujumomilelizemosopitijip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb83b1bc3c---xezewivadosona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d43c4f19d---46290545968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+your+mother%27s+maiden+name+answerPDF 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_off0000ea62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA62 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 12c31a28287f75ae04de1b4b60a568df30911083e89b9844da263aa310fc29be
font_01_sfnt_off0001033f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1033F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011b51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B51 16780 bytes
SHA-256: 964cdaef6e6cf6a82f4e426c177aa818cb8c4dd512357faad67ccda4a328703f