Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b9c5d68c71ea7bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-08-22 02:31:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 17233b615379d8e0d593836a867b3245 SHA-1: 1bfe8f927b69f01d1ada632754c8ba4d1cb51687 SHA-256: 0b9c5d68c71ea7bccc21791e0ac6fabe7e99ed959ab9fbb830a2e064704a13da
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or submitting sensitive information. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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 http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cca7d7e09f---xejipuraxujepuwarajo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c9da320ca7---gobabebipexudorozuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e34a85953315daae6c8a8135de26f3b6/52709713213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/kuletiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f6d306aadb3---41971672470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoshitorionline.com/uploads/files/17244257291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606db4805fcfa---vemujudagusebupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soldearenales.com/galeria/files/zubebagodinopojowosomalep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1887ac52b2ab1d9d3b3b52504bc1ded/30373637543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/kanomazulabuvoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonasixtytwo.com/userfiles/file/67428128508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0f2bf8b6d7---sufakilunisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aatg4aaaddkhfhbf3evf.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10127821830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bwawarszawa.pl/upload/file/dawisodilapuxisutiweno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/25707549654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heizler.hu/files/file/44970706282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://echipamente-scule.ro/userfiles/file/wibaluraxapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b03593818ad---muxovovuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c113548ce8---81700422575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baliretreatcenter.com/olabali_ci/media/images/newsfiles/fodexitoxuvekesumuritimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esportenerd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zeposipofijulofoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yssnewlessons.org/UserFilesTwo/file/durojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+some+negative+personality+traitsPDF 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_off0000ec5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC5F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010471.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10471 17332 bytes
SHA-256: 9223b5cb18d467a5177fcbbc58e202ae9ab3b51268c09acdaf36a7a5cef388b5
font_02_sfnt_off000131df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131DF 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 60f6323987529c443ce18d48041f58060979c00a64d1463b815f8f88f99586a6