Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b7f5f658155274d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 07:52:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 1eda5c2e1bbe46a7636df1ef740c6908 SHA-1: 6e703f9e63b5c7089848e16f910b59757d154f81 SHA-256: 0b7f5f658155274d9c9bbc1a7c8235b82171cdccc4540b72f80b497b5a8673f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure suggest it may exploit PDF vulnerabilities or serve as a lure for further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+gcf+of+2 PDF link annotation
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/42185437600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c021e49a4f---86696310285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075850eda791---wozotijamiromox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75ac27338c0007577d7c105d4621a598/xejisugoligoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e92bd45ea---basajuvudixalidetozub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1c8e64819a---95221056735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/add32f07b910f3af7f3865f0368c6900/20330536569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ljvpn5plrs5u3det67gusllb37/lefoximitaxufosatejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aite-materials.com/upfiles/file/86034745290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/159a69aa8305db34e2535bc9869f35cb/59695841520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thankschicken.com/uploads/files/51896418025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842b52c5257---vilajed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/40588375070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--49s538bo8ux8c.net/userfiles/file/39951984889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a7d059f46150de1bec7174a4aaf0b45/sarumude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dc7e6e9696439f125402a4389f0d93e/guronemaderex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikhospital.com/ck_uploads/uploads/files/29883954405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/69579838803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/35866039944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a01c4477196---lisogulirigej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e99b4432d17047c4f6252e41b8dd6b38/60636851313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tradingphrases.net/userfiles/files/23323894040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pametnidom.hr/pametne_kuce/userfiles/file/17247811980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/juvatatesoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24315b502144a98168049884634bcb53/36662493863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d707.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD707 17796 bytes
SHA-256: 9de08100f8348eb02b30e0815853490bd95e6cb1f494af78ab4dcc3dd4cfccdd
font_01_sfnt_off000105af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011dc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DC6 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 259930861839a4874bd73e935578e42761f7ed596c7b837b8528e867f2ceff54