Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b64fbc6002d4ae5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-07-19 19:43:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: e64251b194ea1b4627e0adb354b83e60 SHA-1: 348a6684df443c82609627f7924c596175cdd1b1 SHA-256: 0b64fbc6002d4ae59bd77c0d37b0fd23af7595e5ba183a15ca59ab55592f38b6
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links pointing to external resources, with a high-confidence heuristic indicating a link farm on compromised WordPress upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links indicates an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://chinamakina.com/userfiles/file/27698560236.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://seoulmenu.com/uploads/files/kemitimuzuzunufeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/42157628694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://takeacode.net/user/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e/file/40422239514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2i603hqd20ji08taka4mvo5hb5/37105309626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3c012b5c7f549f68b04e6019a68c123/88388944289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternatifhosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/zibatizewetaroxupom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b4d0c10871---nejolonuzegubajum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c86f8b3ab72---94389357949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086013998df5---52321107447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roocenter.ru/upload/file/rukut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd8r9c6o5c6slerktr73rpu8k9/68286184498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q4i9tfdckr5bof4v99aggb0fbg/nowototowokutedaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077044e0e26e---getupaxolimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dtkcfgfkl7bjqco9deldsma85/1898730235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bishopsalamatkhokhar.org/userfiles/file/17848366170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/94727718879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d59bv0ip3fo1esh3qc87v69e2/98081139810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuadienlanhhoaphat.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/3597374379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://porterbrothersltd.com/app/webroot/uploads/texuwopeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxforce.nl/userfiles/files/katizirofodudumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artistalexanderkanevskyroyalshakespeareglobetheatrelondon.com/clientMedia/file/zerota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotocaroli.it/userfiles/files/27035772527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=very+painful+periodPDF 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_off0000ef71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF71 10408 bytes
SHA-256: 391453951ea9eb895d6192835c035ee9241203b5e8886870e4c24a7682a1cd4b
font_01_sfnt_off00010708.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10708 16604 bytes
SHA-256: 3e66456f1f7fd2aea08bf7c8cb6238f87e593a303755f4b751a9d32a5cce88b1
font_02_sfnt_off0001321f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1321F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1