Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b91243120a4f00d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-04-29 04:43:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: 308bb3e5920c886403125eac3b3bd2f8 SHA-1: be18603ad22263f4daaa7d5d151dc85b2f2dfee6 SHA-256: 0b91243120a4f00d86b27c86ca00a4f69ce5fd71bd506e5497e086c394efdc0d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing attempt disguised as an enrollment form. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of embedded URLs and the phishing lure strongly suggest an attempt to deliver a secondary payload or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bec625bb3a68f32d1d4ada8c5095846/vejudu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47a24c94d2af00d319ac6c8752e23c39/wogepomesin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cittadelmiele.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef8c98d47f2cdd2c9bed36eac328465f/bugimiwixezad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc7da2a95a---wuzam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rekalibracija.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74ba92440cb2fa3dbf222375c6c27d2b/94071844703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limitlessillusion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/237fb9452083628e8ffb3e117033e3c2/16355001921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff79ee746f---12193306435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea965e8a05a40dca9b5070bf8b012a23/dawarobetupolidupanuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160737a4943bf7---bugur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160868ceaab7b8---bibivorunedukedotax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/99514102090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802f52ba76f---dipukawokolamav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01ffc2682ce80b6fc00fb7f4b9fdf316/21625157958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d00ce505b---nojoxokurenemegesukokeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g47lvhrsjob1eq0d5h82ourck7/1788114452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cafd6408b598f8f5a07d4bbf216e354/60286861739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608609da937de---kapadekegexado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160797b5c2a775---87767890645.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/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=efps+corporate+enrollment+formPDF 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_off0000e0bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0BB 5120 bytes
SHA-256: 308d3c31c7ed9ea7046275dde28537e2257047af3916563311436be6008a2b84
font_01_sfnt_off0000f217.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF217 11140 bytes
SHA-256: 7556ee28c19535e9fe1c0950fb6be82d7a1f3a60f12a11ef17c2f6baeaf3cc8d