Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b596a43e257b935…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 21:52:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ebed28bbc8f9c18b15adc3751e48629f SHA-1: de22cc95398c2821386aaa6745184544eefd8d6d SHA-256: 0b596a43e257b9351971021e2b4f795f8d675b59561513dac9976782067ab110
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with several URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF document body was heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific content, but the overall structure and URL analysis point towards a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://dp-engineers.com/admin/userfiles/file/49957238578.pdf
    • http://coming-c.com/userfiles/file/29684634784.pdf
    • http://galsabino.it/userfiles/files/83940627283.pdf
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614246eed96b6---70687406917.pdf
    • https://ipkameros.lt/userfiles/file/tufisuz.pdf
    • http://ideviceplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/dogokitibafageguwosa.pdf
    • https://izr.fr/files/kitumikunenonilibixamovag.pdf
    • http://limeitec.com/upfiles/editor/files/niwubipopelasofupagul.pdf
    • https://mytopics.it/uploads/file/31697679798.pdf
    • http://lacasedescaraibes.fr/file/lagabuwixifamovesit.pdf
    • http://mientaytourist.com/uploads/files/rutuzesotorit.pdf
    • http://cellesekorea.com/ckupload/files/viwimabosevipizera.pdf
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613da631802fe---sudedaxuwirujapugaz.pdf
    • http://wm-meyer.de/meyer/admin/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vawomuk.pdf
    • https://onlinendttraining.net/files/37093186010.pdf
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161324e73c9004---kajexadiv.pdf
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dddd8022f8---begowezozeti.pdf
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/lufilas.pdf
    • https://redengewinnt.com/userfiles/file/25312647869.pdf
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613be90fc4512---doxoruluwilupulegomuxe.pdf
    • http://thevale.us/userimages/60437688608.pdf
    • http://gsxr.hu/userfiles/file/wuninikedejajopewabigu.pdf
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139e2c337b04---bokisefekoto.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=pou+mod+apk+latest+version
    • 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_off0000def7.bin
cf0ade4a27c24b1105f4a53fd67688b5d2d5cd14a78a0f13c9b2ff2095ced1d9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEF7 10812 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7eb.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7EB 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010ffd.bin
c14ab5058974ecf5d1acdc7c98556e0f4f592d5565da2fc30dbf3298e493c5bf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FFD 18364 bytes