Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b819d9b9ad65b37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-06-25 20:25:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: bff2eaf7abf47c9e2c4e3b071daad9c2 SHA-1: 94dff0dca9acd191296ccac43181fdf442c72c41 SHA-256: 0b819d9b9ad65b37efb1fd84c8df7bc77842b1e3e5a1d7b1668e96f4c957821e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised WordPress upload storage locations. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting suggests an attempt to obscure the true malicious destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a10a6bd6401---6443175163.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ipublicity.cz/data/file/woduwixitisir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160898029199d7---409869234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oabbnmi926g65g87iinpjfmdcr/gevunega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b52160810---botawalepokenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhs1962.com/clients/b/b9/b967f936f519796c2a696a6ed1da67f9/File/53926092089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diaochue.vn/userfiles/file/75274387584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b148774dae0---19432060720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c7tbsoorv8vmh5b0f24g7sgkb/71378343825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49hfb9qku092csu4hq4jr7p2ft/gekamafebelefaromofozoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/pubujadoseluwitozozubofud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7510034a2e386f9a32d9c14ccbd0fa9/xesadidivobilozone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ilm12bpo9f9g66700g6iqo8514/zodaxebuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021050603515773499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abaj.cz/UserFiles/File/garasopobizopaverupipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vph6bii7dcrkkvfqngup7dhgm2/6661453825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb7625682f---78639454308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078227012541---xutepawiluvovovuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinka.ru/userfiles/file/17116922962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c597b667603---86593105010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/susizusegexewobopuwiluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe218a3bf2978e6074f507bcd160d405/25922262033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=cad+to+pdf+converter+online+freePDF 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_off0000d6b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6B2 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 0cf22efa4e8fbf96b6e2adf63922851d4c8091844e38bf8f866f31b9930b4fe6
font_01_sfnt_off0000eeda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEDA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000106ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106EC 26660 bytes
SHA-256: 41fb2314ba1acd218c76e45ba8c5b8cdc522be8b1ce4777668b3da802747e7d9