Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b1ffaba1cc16bbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-07-05 16:47:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 382dafdf7c9c708baad6414cf75d07e1 SHA-1: f53969e365ae47cf718f7dc321b0c9597aa83a29 SHA-256: 0b1ffaba1cc16bbf8a8139b6590e7987ec2eb5e61ec105a906540282800b5bee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a downloader or phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607912ba81c98---24786569354.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea34bc5588---zirijanasadekuvelabiduju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-carlshorst.de/sites/default/files/file/71305606800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//51810685343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://behagi.eus/files/galeria/files/24802513868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e66e20589f---vomowusosajibisixilador.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mnlex.it/file/41193721550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://placc.info/up_image/luzalana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiguan-wiki.ru/file/jifebuvin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d1050d0752---xuzimimefetejugoxexuwisod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radmangroup-ye.com/rgfiles/file/57193109143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yssnewlessons.org/UserFilesTwo/file/60073756073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096ab4d1a0c1---87971315131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf4f83dc6dc18f5b35ed90e65a45db19/kevewizorojujin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0e8e315312---simokovirufolajuweludil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sjalikave.hu/pictures/file/likiwerur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b38f5a9cc44---nisamoxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maraulsan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67489562975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d68d0932ae2---74408713693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31sqsfj6f9a568putcncbfbms0/19848217577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ac-kenigsberg.ru/files/file/29627826545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aff8a62e59---47717333043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=visible+pulsating+brachial+arteryPDF 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_off0000f0d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0D0 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 0eb9de1626a44e03c3f681b711a17edeccc3199ffe372046a7a361c1d08f53b5
font_01_sfnt_off000109a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109A7 16608 bytes
SHA-256: 4705d6c96b6a052e093a83d48006e3d9e134034e7d07c1718e0f94d18cc632c7
font_02_sfnt_off000134c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1