Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b8429a75c3b7aee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-05-10 04:14:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b421b29f3613c36b9f114803461d7133 SHA-1: 61305737c5457d209688e8945c370c152a1a7d05 SHA-256: 0b8429a75c3b7aee43d17a91a0b228745fa814df838fe2d025338fdf7fa9074f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, 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. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple compromised URLs is a high-priority indicator.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/nogenojosiwiwerafaxak.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gofropack.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc57bf8b8779fcc25d0d23a00c4da998/rovofilij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160836f23af989---korifimutetedavav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2548d33450bdf5580774d99a156bb452/10636583138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kcequipment.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82043d7cd358544aaa580a57747cc2dc/49723059382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4pm2me01s47bsgpdm23upatjbn/77191748422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a57f6964e5---goramovokenajaxitupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cd71bd61380c900ef2224ca4d31e774/fusixapixapuxivek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9544fab72201a4c518ad99ba5dc56ef6/bilojazevujomolagipopami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607783ce768b7---febubexumaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4f2efbe809119e0e158ce003622f371/78356585083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f24f57a608---20786243839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pm0t3q86412ibmud49orm6m6t4/41368777154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonafideonline.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2434b362f4d58a57eb0c8ae4f76eb54/61882274642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dbcc0224ca---tawojubikebezusati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicornproduction.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb7ef77f66ea36ae97db0733792839a9/81778252626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/kijirukof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=css+grid+template+columns+wrapPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fd76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD76 5388 bytes
SHA-256: 6037601324d956bda2541bdcfc1236800b1c57dfc9863551cb822109083bcf5e
font_01_sfnt_off00010fc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FC0 11748 bytes
SHA-256: 0e4215a55de1f8d1d25f0944b9765e55416a51c451b82e4a4403acf0386c2b81