Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b1635e25d58875a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-09-08 04:23:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 7ca0422dd756d859dd011cb6e4e0557c SHA-1: 8ace29887a2995c20ff177e4a13f6d1bf7566408 SHA-256: 0b1635e25d58875a94fe7ca4b98c9e5b0dc1e024e98cf32a343184dcd57c3b12
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a strong intent to host malicious content or facilitate phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/96014248445.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/rokubomogupotivojaladuxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210712221359_18310287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawaniint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/saxuzuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8f43cf15dbdd5d0c8fb8a86b1cecb9d/83241924424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c0e9e3cc21---50416459198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gasthaus-steinkirchen.de/img/editor/file/pabujurorodasugamutifume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f39fc41cd0c3b025a1a49c26ad5e536/mopuwomividi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protradingindia.net/userfiles/file/77695009336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairmonteast1975.com/clients/0/01/014dde3c838f86fef2ac1d31a86c415b/File/rajorulofiramireboxotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160964962f421c---18800269726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljazeerahpetroleum.ae/userfiles/files/85237875524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16115c07100017---31703976681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a306892eb7---46757299085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jf9a21us9rcdp6gsbclbjpoktp/fukatelejubimeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nandeestationery.com/userfiles/files/warazimofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60147d273e77afd90f2426b1a010c95e/1195404244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmic-kino.ru/sadm_files/jutapojimarajofibagaruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linhngapt.vn/upload/files/99961298819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhttourist.com/upload/fckimagesfile/4542404649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fb9267eda9---fesukidajowone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=petit+prince+book+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_off0000b534.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB534 19124 bytes
SHA-256: 58d98d640a98aa7492dd30e3515c82243e22a08a8b9c333a5d146d0ba66f22c1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e63f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE63F 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 43360a73b7cd5f0e427ae1e7881ff88d36fbdf984fbd01afcbf0798ca5363681
font_02_sfnt_off0000fde9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDE9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1