Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b3a4d320b6d4555…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 08:20:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: bc25d9d23b47fb4156fc311a6ceadae1 SHA-1: b2924e214c7cfcf14454cbd10043ef3085cf4e92 SHA-256: 0b3a4d320b6d45559f1991e31b966bb0bf53b6249b237c2111509e248bfa554f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and embedded URLs point towards a spearphishing attachment attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614011a2464d9---vilunubemelexelidasa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chrisdepanneservices.fr/Sites/cds/files/votexukuviminimekajujuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e20640bf0a6c1bde6614469e01fec7fc/furubowivugefefolewaxegag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valkexclusief.reviewz.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/sabelatozovizusuwamokobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de0cd74be8207cf7efee5228d8a5fa9d/lemowogifile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szabobuszberles.hu/files/files/84296972993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aff7c6430c21e9198c85365a257eb014/1505641894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://refah4ter.info/basefile/hotelrefah4terir/files/jogujenakolivafujabuzufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b8abffbe80cc7189b7631f7b84a1269/96573396170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137a8fb9975b---35250093203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congtydaihai.com/upload/files/34561507607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mxagproducts.com/upload/browse/file/25912320801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theatresaucinema.fr/uploads/file/segabapolimafapodetijapuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalendarz.probik.pl/fckeditor/userfiles/file/78188180579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c2b5d0ee39---2562906735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerezolorente.com/files/cerezolorente/_repo/file/jutajiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c8762e20c0126968ccc78f1c506f541/95118336893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lasantitosrestaurant.com/userfiles/file/bozujegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/mezixaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozhelalikram.de/resimler/files/begebirozemediweto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelofthewinds.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vagepenebijafagujaker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khojedu.net/userfiles/file/15044785556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harissarantis.com/userfiles/files/5344529150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=the+walking+zombie+2+download+apkPDF 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_off0000d397.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD397 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eba9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBA9 20600 bytes
SHA-256: 1f151258efd266d50afc2ef7d4c62ad4c96410c896ba7d4a337f0ba981224ade
font_02_sfnt_off00012248.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12248 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 4629d075732faed28c6eab6ac11e0c65b17dc00c3450f43bb70414ef8cd7c1d7