Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b78161ac30dfbdc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-07-30 19:13:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 45e7bcc97012f4c2df88b797f55d3ef1 SHA-1: 921c60e341828b0f46ec02ac82713f5fe6e8d33f SHA-256: 0b78161ac30dfbdce9269edaa6ccbb687da76c6c762f457d4629265aef004ec0
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating malformed streams and link farms pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign, leveraging multiple domains to host PDF files. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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.vandiestbrandstoffen.be/uploads/files/57046823337.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8573f237a4---77682674148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qb6gh4aposqsjjvnns088r1v6h/98283041862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulepmark.hu/nyebu/fulepmark/userfiles/file/30066336441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q4lcnk3o9a59osnqbhlgn970g2/dixoniwititanufawin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a368b8048f---76834833485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myarrahnu.com/mo_images/files/95985068892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.ca/upload/editor/file/93830529496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2f174d5476---20048435194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d205003c51---beravizasufitotusajam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bti34l7al0bm5e45vnns5eh638/29962940406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://collegemahan.ir/basefile/collegemahanir/files/wesiwonemodaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608487309ada1---dinaripuvugemidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gezond-trakteren.nl/kasteel-doornenburg-img/bestandenfile/99305150389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiberglasssupplydepot.com/userfiles/files/14492538012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/60522473653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/32631050391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68dd9cef39e7b49ebbef4a43da06f3b7/56251388392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalabware.es/d/files/zapufudokimezuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/883684dc7021d711d293354b51aa3237/lefisewigixarepiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebdaatcoop.com/userfiles/files/joxezaxukere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/84725041412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macro-e.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/fapagikafapobiwaruwolivox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=imperative+and+exclamatory+sentences+worksheets+for+grade+3PDF 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_off0000d29c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD29C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eaae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAAE 17460 bytes
SHA-256: 9ea7b575daab9684d5789490b43c4fc7eb7e1de1868b7ca5657e6eee0d52bde4
font_02_sfnt_off0001187f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1187F 11648 bytes
SHA-256: 04b2489972f1f47266e4245503b10dd1f4beae27ad6efaf816931c774c971993