Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b5a7d0c97b5bdd8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 17:09:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 4d210aa8d79d4b846fe913b4f7721983 SHA-1: 20bd19867315a2d35d528256a427be2680efdc02 SHA-256: 0b5a7d0c97b5bdd83ab50d64c63b4d09aaa25edbf2b5a656e370612be062263d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress upload directories and other hosting, likely to distribute further malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, aligning with spearphishing tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da98b99b0bf---78230456247.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ha3qv1t2qch701tt9cs5v6gl38/jidazibepoxofakadibofoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d059d294f8c443489b067a7a13e9dfe/puvelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://londonvipchauffeur.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48d225a40e32abebaeb75d365fa44f83/gedugonazolatuselodin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.weldcor.ca/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kobemubiberidonogefoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shop-ecobati.com/medias/upload/files/gorokaxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3eaeaa6df1339eb80214abed696d49a/xaxoxeropugetisizifon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/638c516e2305d377ba7d975eca89b27c/40786654907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burelomdo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38528989628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ic.ru/uploads/file/22016382490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160992707ea437---saniwanefodolegekebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a2f60244c4---fekovawalobigisakudazofob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/mefeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vayamcs.com/content_files/files/31993441140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quaint-house.com/images/blog//file/xiviwebiwemeteriji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leoclubmarsala.it/userfiles/files/48058128581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldprint.su/userfiles/file/76741621420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160819385c7054---jawesilofekebimixurizifur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krono-original.vn/Images_upload/files/68409341307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160893971636bf---jiwuvowelazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.net/file/pegogaluvinoxomitafajixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twfern.org/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210603141428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tachikawa-derma.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/doxikixopepakalumivemuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnnycc.org/userfiles/file/kilozogasewub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66f8032c1e22c7af98e20d26ebee9890/rajelunesexekiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2329d9f422---defosulerofimemapulomozok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611beefc4d1bb---2276052322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=syllable+stress+pdfPDF 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_off0000d0c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0C0 18364 bytes
SHA-256: d840585553ef28fc36894e23a0868402e574a92def74ad6bece8d002e6a1122c
font_01_sfnt_off0001000d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1000D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011824.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11824 10504 bytes
SHA-256: 1e9dd09e16e79de14d25e2d28d33bd70880ab4176c8c1aceb86d8a054b306384