Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b86dee67eb136c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.8 KB Created: 2021-07-01 09:18:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 1a709ec46f73d881e1e0f0b118401c81 SHA-1: 0e2a687a9ceb47675e057236656f7370f4061162 SHA-256: 0b86dee67eb136c235239aa9f37a201328019757f1fde07dd9f37204542d1f6b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document designed to trick users into downloading further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9927

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 https://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+alight+motion+android PDF link annotation
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160877924b24c9---ginagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160785c3a490bd---32508359114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uaohr8qn62es5u7udnd3n7065e/lafafozobemefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae00484eea3---13863777384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160941da772051---labevesafewujepijopamubis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f0103eb828---31581945675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99693351140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/66506428410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatacorp.com/upload/files/webopevelibofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qu01l8ov5f6bndikor8erp86t5/80198073336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gea99.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48908979814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09c871ade1c1d0082d45d19dd095eed1/tikosatulenunad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burchiellati.com./file_fck/file/kategidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094db6b3feec---74336988835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c347dd62b---20333326379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607453175184c---13881067406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/gakudowikarako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608657c0ed791---guwodukoboro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7r6h1qqmfnvss8jcunn1p97mcr/torugimidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa764c19561---mejexeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prtl.pl/userfiles/file/64215327177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baf472ce0d4---73009725403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridaholidayplanner.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/270f3f2e59a93b9b5281428933ea8926/kitilozo.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000efb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFB8 16456 bytes
SHA-256: 77e9d3a2237260f7400a4400705a80c4594203e647499cfd91df6ee9a110b707
font_01_sfnt_off00010639.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10639 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E50 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 8d747e522d6d87ce53d0837ddc9b772b3ab526892ca795a28f50dc9bc60f0946
font_03_sfnt_off000135ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135AB 19500 bytes
SHA-256: c72b57377d2d0d9aaa57f0aa0ea220ddeb1d192cc27401a83d2a98ad35c376d1