Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b3650411f2cfaca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-06-27 03:08:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 5d4b2925da5bb5e590d8290346638c57 SHA-1: 03081ecad703e102baeb24dd285d37cdd762a975 SHA-256: 0b3650411f2cfaca56f6462f5b174878698cff31d08c9da72e3c9f336e52c308
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it functions as a link farm or redirection mechanism. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or further malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rubric+for+this+activity PDF link annotation
    • http://zulassung4you.de/bilder/file/18703711809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160923374c20cb---43746411787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c281b3f80---kixuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/mujaluzewisexabiwogin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3395323372---30707608213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/309980d95dc8b709b7af77131f3c6646/73895370131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b180d855988---83240654185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monocroma.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e262caa35b6fdf7855f33acb34c0ea04/61315919921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/jafovoretexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lws-realestate.com/userfiles/files/67694729739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ee820c9b4---90873374172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b92305146e---78969621798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/864034e6eeb0fda2e73d6a4520ecd1e4/tesoxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f52c0fb4d---lewepisopanasale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b052283dadb---disuvakakikarebiwip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b6928a64300b25bbf6edce48143610a/91771474037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/us0rjkt0ltig97tpe24ojncvvb/51799464282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessium.fr/userfiles/file/54776498368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emauto.lv/index/images/up/file/11344358903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nonbodepsg.com/uploads/files/59922372596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alasclub.gr/neuro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59853781997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccc9f8b247d0a9fcdf125f6492d79ea6/71891878707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc94e33415---bukekisarovofodisomurig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfc8dce9adca47a8ab7779b25c98ec6e/gezibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d366.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD366 10616 bytes
SHA-256: e1758144cd524c923cfa23b3e4f1d1a012d31e4958550f7ce5e15beef77620cd
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebe5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBE5 16476 bytes
SHA-256: 62e430f7c2003741ead8658d1e978d902c6944cfe6de24fd0a663f14fd7c5de7
font_02_sfnt_off000116b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1