Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b11a7a827939c1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 17:51:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 52507db81819915f60a35a2864a13b2c SHA-1: 7795ce69ca127d0f8b0b2bf69a43de83226bf677 SHA-256: 0b11a7a827939c1e0deb02877ab00bca3ce0d04175e789c0d3ba1f7e85e6d69e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple compromised upload links and link farms points towards an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9897

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://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161111c7867aa2---99648368219.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://franzoesischebulldoggen.eu/userfiles/file/74739953522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaatkinson.com/userimages/bugiduzawijotixirupurof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yomadesign.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/45622286136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aslimitada.com/userfiles/file/8305983985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0de70e01a2857121b107b9284d281fee/xuwafubuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rdmfv9iticu8s16b41li5rhclf/falesuberukinebuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narnivet.com/userfiles/files/bolat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2d3f3e59702bb42ec4af24a9a13c52e/98365011208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtshotel.it/images/file/66230477066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfwarbitrator.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/330698589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yucekalipmakina.com/tsrm1/img/userfiles/file/43069349444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131688ee4391---8359244125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729bd02ba22---libazemizifezesojome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-business-plan.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/82792923685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91obphun00gje63via7dj5i66c/logijaneporexavotoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://micronforgacsolo.hu/UserFiles/file/1276107725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086056f8c179---6652104717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac04c4a0733---17708091485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b99mhnminjsen52u13tftton0b/zogafewikugekoxize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archissimo.eu/userfiles/files/35230188011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d266a82e2---nuzutamixoges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18be1b6338c172b7130dc11e44da8ab1/82150753286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatminhtrading.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/gifunakejevakug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/71771138699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerhouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ad2791c95674075e40a068b20928cd0/gajulakenisawifadujijaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=e+learning+thesis+research+paper+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_off00011374.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11374 18092 bytes
SHA-256: 4891c70b7e07c35308162c81d33856f03ca84232168dc4ffb5afc79f15080f66
font_01_sfnt_off0001424a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1424A 10760 bytes
SHA-256: cf9934ad91eb247fe8c0267e48e6cfd66c54a203c67486f4cd0589900c59a5a5
font_02_sfnt_off00015ab9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15AB9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1