Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b41a6c21a0f1b08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-08-29 08:49:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 2d44c405a4fbe0f0fe5822d607cd39dd SHA-1: d675de5e2c46e9956b7116f883e85ca2fb786426 SHA-256: 0b41a6c21a0f1b08c9dce5db31d1c2d32b3336b29ffbc381ee5645096da2b35e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and ML classification further support its malicious nature. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it's not intended for direct user interaction but rather to host malicious links.

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://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c985be6a134---tezojatubap.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608be6bd6a08d---85518922684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087613c9d8dd---99040888018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pjt7qqncvi6at1jrbckc2eo8eb/xosixetanusigukisova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbb4e0be66a---gasuduziguriraxeladumil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erdivigado.hu/userkepek/file/luwutuvokapagovaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pablohernandes.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81669d987a790fa269c7714b61a334d8/befetisanumon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushipickup.com/uploads/files/lirunaxutazole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f7fb19e6e---90062637317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ebebb547d2---18911571517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://licorne-hotel-restaurant.com/userfiles/file/kijaxubujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863092646ec---83130480698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/17846869182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dbccef300a---61188292789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canevinclassof70.com/clients/6/6b/6b8b8ee0d314e59372afbcb75100d768/File/kalalenenisuxosilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610dfd47b1876---75705680188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gulfcoolcontracting.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/29468498444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannermaul.com/userData/board/file/vemamulalinotovuxixefeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bba3322e503---16413815867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokemom2.com/uploads/files/17074726764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intrigantka.ru/images/userfiles/file/49180803845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bf126bcda2---betalawuxozumaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076a73e2b97c---legezojeset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abee2dc63e3---xitunuperizaradofozer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=subtract+rupees+18.25+from+rupees+20.75PDF 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_off0000d20f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD20F 11468 bytes
SHA-256: 080a155fe1be6517854fed4c250a71eb719707c1e3c0a925839d28e959c348e3
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED2C 17596 bytes
SHA-256: 4e543e0d49fef16168bc8a79f62b1286536b871060f7fafaa687920b5f2583f9
font_02_sfnt_off00011a88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A88 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1