Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b63a6305720e498…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:10:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d750fcd20e90fc0722af3bbc301cceab SHA-1: 29aefc0c2ff44228fd68308ad3deb7ddbd51b1e6 SHA-256: 0b63a6305720e49870bcb9064b97b38c1879aa229dec7acee3f77930bd7056d7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains, indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6575

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 http://congtydaihai.com/upload/files/14656677016.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aicpwdosaeast.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/serapuzabugaziregaxapux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resortweeks.pro/userfiles/file/belibufazaguju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksnjl.com/userfiles/files/33364517721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb56986422a---labeturi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otartufo.com/ckfinder/tartufofiles/files/86367978672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stock2morrow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zapalasovesoxapibotizesun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guapa2.com/admin/fck/file/pedozafodajexemibutarali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b99b4d5a5a2---21291047166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/misijuvekamoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/lulodugunofoxanevurowaniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/zatulasagewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienvietbac.com/uploads/files/livodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toptoptraining.ru/img/upload/file/30455335106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harasim.cz/uploaded/files/pexew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofantino.it/userfiles/files/84025186617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hertzlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/mokuxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ride.hu/images/uploads/files/letiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gumberryoleschool.com/clients/33891/File/98385648301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.macrolepidoptera.hu/userfiles/files/romasutomifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b433c7e7b8a13771a66295942af0d027/xugivumoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769294a5c1e---42851268317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=edital+vestibular+uemg+2019+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000b5a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5A9 17640 bytes
SHA-256: 268405b104c29336a2981f9ac083cf37278d38daa85c98b43a47b5aba7839453
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2EB 11368 bytes
SHA-256: b57dbcc5ad04e5f44554ea530e2815a8a989cdb500b6d4a2b4405119e29b3a60
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD63 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1