Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b2c07389da92cf5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

115.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 07:36:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 5c0fd0b9cc0112a5eed401c47fccc415 SHA-1: 602c34abfff0012fe838c0c0109a85198db92742 SHA-256: 0b2c07389da92cf5d7cc52d0973d8562716cacae837364956ad015f9ecdb29f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This pattern suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination, likely a phishing or malware distribution site. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9889

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 http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2a36be7713b7718104260056ef373f0/7835294698.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://trevelsi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wagoxupajisonufomibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industrialdevices.in/uploads/17335809339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangs-ns.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210819225858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608158962b64c---xivobarafatutalerud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126fc431dd80---xonolatilekozipokas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/8022344391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakes77.com/clients/47041/File/govumosirug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soft-pro.hr/upload/datoteke/85681448752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088fa34eebb2---65928049064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drnanemilk.com/tctt/sites/aaa/file/silobuxapiduser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160869a8cdf773---79370417175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinag7furniture.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/xowowowigibew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sibiucuratenie.ro/fckeditor/userfiles/file/dogubufikuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40jdcpij78kltlgt1m6f90q0cu/93017801030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vaio2m49vfo0i24ssp9rpq2bu2/72830280979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://essuances.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39073046064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kapokcmassage.com/uploads//files/202108091356253705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--b8qxb801j.tw/upload/files/48638164136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prosquash.by/data/62967105319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764b20a1605---ruwovuketusor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psystat.net/candyticket/uploads/page_images/files/puzojuvavenajibazak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b3f9381c9ad1a8963d28f0d26a1718d/taravovulukimebej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korvet-sp.ru/userfiles/file/labuxuneduxeburatutuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphonedown.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juvej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16120772c27916---14308880519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=el+pragmatismo+william+james+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_off0001576e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1576E 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 0e5e75054d4497eba95603a6a4c47f18d1574d5cc23eadf3ae3a4fc440fba68e
font_01_sfnt_off0001709c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1709C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000188ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x188AE 20832 bytes
SHA-256: 2cf20222c979a99476b710b18798e02bcaf29cb71722571ef74b727462b1b4ae