Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b3be82a785028d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-06-25 14:52:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: eb2dfa3a1a1f936a7b40910f50ccef0d SHA-1: c38bcf937d24129210ce4c4ecd7ad9e0eed95823 SHA-256: 0b3be82a785028d1475b5067653d8dca15f6f161238549ca1c96c8bf7f7cbfef
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, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to exploit users by directing them to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cool+things+to+do+in+minecraft+survival
    • http://baugeraeteverleih.de/benutzerdateien/10214640278.pdf
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cfa0b5a12931660775d5e66a7f3cf32/5563231542.pdf
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eeaj6dm1vg359nbdh3qj596d86/kapagonuxex.pdf
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160776e949a3e2---zumujujaxolesor.pdf
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096eb7399f78---76127398566.pdf
    • https://edu-mate.kr/_UploadFile/Images/file/31434516339.pdf
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qb3m43fbkcb7ftdv83b3kn1gvs/95660218317.pdf
    • https://drsubhashawale.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10669590588.pdf
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcba3562bbd---88678930256.pdf
    • http://pappteam.hu/userfiles/file/20262493291.pdf
    • http://energo-winstal.pl/userfiles/file/7657200301.pdf
    • https://brothers-music.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/voxotaxakoxiwiwam.pdf
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cff4e2282fdcb6609821f674aadbbd4/36257338093.pdf
    • http://fujavietnam.com/images/Download/mifozarinafarolif.pdf
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ad9c36036d---15800550939.pdf
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad09e98ad8b---luxopixefinuxibuluvowejif.pdf
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6n8v4php97717dhrpns89muu34/21468216394.pdf
    • http://dailycan.com/userfiles/files/63995336871.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f781.bin
8b0d5cb21b44ed9afc0568c75e58116100e0d9714c4f8d60e99a45ea80fabba1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF781 17064 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012371.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12371 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013b88.bin
efc25fe48f490fe83a3befb671c7b35b0340e744e0ea124841b5a33811542274
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B88 11120 bytes