Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0bb1f60670651b28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.0 KB Created: 2021-08-18 02:42:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 00f3ebcfec30371cef671bf0d8e2140d SHA-1: 16ee65e8df99444a2aa9040d584fb3b84685ca04 SHA-256: 0bb1f60670651b282c6ccc6aaebf70b678a59b61650750e966b20ba6f6f15c35
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains heuristics indicating it is a link farm and a lure for invoices or payments, with multiple URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the links and the lure suggest the PDF is intended to facilitate the download of a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b97fa7985d5---55106192269.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ct89cq9fa33chu7nc14vvf9aj3/tibefuletenewisosejix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grnca.org/img/files/files/77612847721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/65098753808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karthikeyanjayaram.com/userfiles/file/28795694969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tf8havrc47e9280q6udhkefvtt/19216391921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unserbiokorb.ch/userfiles/file/18196749566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harasportcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h3mdiu6vdm49r7oj4a221u0o7d/39809924086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup1.com/contents//files/xutivipaget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steakclubhn.com/campannas/file/52113629561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cappellastudio.it/userfiles/files/7154289430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cassotech.nl/site/data/ws/files/kuvezijavedamovozeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondatayho.vn/images/ckeditor/files/sakorutofojipagigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a8da98435---408920195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160871fa7c927f---5864452679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b37d61b8af---40983031326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7358825a3d0072480475499a64e8cc2/7475655557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fd5e8341aa66fc504cc5befaedc7e4c/fowilufenuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationforexcellence.com/clients/66491/File/1686650340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santechnikosdarbai.lt/images/files/xubamobubomojawapexegeber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkpower.net/upload/files/xubizezumusixudigabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillcresthigh1971.com/clients/9/9f/9fbf9047a6869172a982db6f42f05a9a/File/nadeximowaxoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herve-coiffure.ci/files/24795734476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/23717752401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=bill+collection+letter+templatePDF 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_off00011082.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11082 17620 bytes
SHA-256: 01e33d2843c82ed2434741fba3e746111c6f68064ce437cae791927d35ebc016
font_01_sfnt_off00013ec8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EC8 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 4784d6385dff7223656c9a26003929a5d5a77e21eb7c072e16357e5076cd9bad
font_02_sfnt_off0001565d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1565D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1