Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b3f0860226eb45e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.6 KB Created: 2021-07-27 16:56:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 353e972f0a8c178f6ea09883b7aff7d2 SHA-1: 9f42d7a2feebd5ebd23f1791a76807bf02c8da58 SHA-256: 0b3f0860226eb45e66994a12a56182d9641d4383da05a977d28e504f9cd3631f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the heuristic firings point to a link farm strategy.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ad839b143---50120386602.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f0722ca4765a855524e16fb16b3bd25/sivuzogobimorixenuragev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c295d9409b7a8fe6d9daea52f3429ac2/59358336263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160877712a7f02---ragixaxiwekibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloomx.com/sites/all/sites/bloomx.com/files/kusalesevotexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-astar.com/UserFiles/files/fobolosadimiloxokur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietkevuphong.com/uploads/image/files/9046394086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kipf4pahg8pd63oeiilepnkfcs/11978611634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b83711c532344b2029f4df4a817e0b5f/xavad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepdaitruongphat.com/upload/ck/files/3565829456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sealskinz.ru/files/file/74379261725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bistro-e.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aec623b73c---xetuxuwerunuximiwatire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/40581299413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5678922b393ea01f96f43d9b13068c4/67773744440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xosobacninh.vn/webroot/img/files/taxupevilinilolugik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/309236683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erex.hu/upload/file/pewatonijuverezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://werbemittelag.ch/upload/file/87798868067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebell-city.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vibofevoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c345dad21a8---bukomakotogelaxaruko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesmashclub.com/imgUpload/files/bojujovomapivepasamasot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsara.ru/userfiles/file/jijokolizagogowakunimiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/juxenuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e4152ac3c---1961540905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=c%C3%B3mo+se+calcula+la+concentraci%C3%B3n+molar+de+una+soluci%C3%B3nPDF 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_off0000fbc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBC1 18984 bytes
SHA-256: bdd93bb5c94ec549eab496fc45d4abe7f51a318a883db53a31a021b41ff09d25
font_01_sfnt_off00012c94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C94 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000144ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144AB 10800 bytes
SHA-256: a2785a08d5664dbb7cb5c05ba39901ee73d7ec13fd9dc469c54cdf24cd600627