Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b122679595c4f45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-06-25 13:52:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b5fef0a26715a23d34097024f04e1fd5 SHA-1: e9625e18b4e1e8fa0bb5acd9ecf740f5c481510f SHA-256: 0b122679595c4f457883fb459dbbbad97f36b3f9bea9b290012b7b2e3339aaed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The heuristic firings indicate a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the ML classifier's high confidence point towards malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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 https://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=split+word+document+into+separate+pdf+files
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160724ebd512d1---10209992717.pdf
    • http://okmarin.ru/userfiles/file/4444470645.pdf
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e495b9b66---xamiditaduj.pdf
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ab7f70417---sutelawaba.pdf
    • https://systematix.pl/userfiles/file/domutato.pdf
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e026906e536c786a8d5928a9f7fbc50b/gejimuwizamutuxa.pdf
    • https://isosklo.cz/uploads/95387178756.pdf
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f31394271e---sujomeramegizopozu.pdf
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f913abd3a6---gufuxobatu.pdf
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b4a383d734---1918077066.pdf
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a87c992ae1a---mitujesubexepep.pdf
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f8c6ec8802---86296369965.pdf
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720fda0e348---monarenom.pdf
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t92ujlhdbauhpor38r1961fql3/79114628145.pdf
    • https://traonguoc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ooas2f400eovo9m1tsp073t7a5/25477811410.pdf
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088d239206fa---5487658763.pdf
    • 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_off0000cb17.bin
e632f1e05badef9a02c85431d6be3de66a18a87bbc5903d0d49decf1bd63e36f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB17 11040 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4d1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4D1 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fce3.bin
d0b7c391a99f7300cd23890bc5a8527e93430a4fcc9183320421466f894aab41
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCE3 16140 bytes