Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b68687270c7370f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.9 KB Created: 2021-06-29 06:04:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 9b81b20f852348d261e723d6d21c0425 SHA-1: 4dd558ad2a8f85a4d32c6ee296a970eeeab76a1f SHA-256: 0b68687270c7370fd514bbb04815b9f81cb313467b6e3dfd4c209d12e3dbedc1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or SEO manipulation. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure align with a malicious PDF designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9918

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 http://www.irrv.org/uploads/files/pijejitozoxobox.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cm1drmtnq754opr7hhsqmetuh4/nabofukag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/34220987460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/muquajeaigtb8ksrklb47rvb1r/xunakexoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salubrismd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5aef244c30c5e84618e86e6d940c38d/butugitifedumufipudolonim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/736cb080141d9e266d365db5f268a64e/41743270450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoldjogsi.hu/uploads/files/nijamapofusiloxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pdww.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51052631007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hchoanglong.vn/userfiles/file/25000825003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malashealthcare.com/userfiles/files/64670404716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0d37014022---22929502837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/767968e890584d9921c7b67bbae590b0/rikajujafejezojege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b09be665d8e---46468386626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ergo-logo-bamberg.de/userfiles/file/81701563254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e51d96d1fb5d35c08910e71c3fe323c1/47970264284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce1ad77223d6ef8abd988863eb3cd866/49657844556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tauben-buchmeier.de/kleinberliner-schuetzen/userfiles/files/sekawugapagid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babamoleskine.com/files/file/44126861575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perilatomsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/metirodonovewukukitonipef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f486efee7bb6edd6537e48f887ff363/56351337257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dce13npo3l0dpcclpb3uomdgtq/96960426050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076945dd7d3e---pemoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q6vk0pr4b7q1ddko77gmmnr89l/21391090307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barksdalereunions.com/clients/869108/File/86035639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trellisdundee.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06abef32fdfc8d194d500cf7944cabcb/pesufizojokaxalajije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=arithmetic+sequence+sn+formulaPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f5b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010dc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DC7 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 5ecd23c23c9c067c79900fbd6782d61e2886c92186c749c22f04657d6173f6cd
font_02_sfnt_off000126a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126A0 18976 bytes
SHA-256: 4954f0fdae0dfe428fc0c811a1bda2f37cd7fc495f23a2e14bd7bfc5c9945585
font_03_sfnt_off00015890.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15890 16084 bytes
SHA-256: 325c5f5cda05429ae92d15c23118ca1b8712e485108c584e1e30b0ff615913b7