Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0bb5ae9a3335d230…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 08:55:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: cace7ffe615b6edd2f599784012377a4 SHA-1: 8a12ad70db6ee22bc862012cc5fb6ab963284932 SHA-256: 0bb5ae9a3335d23009cd8f84e48ca8f057bf37f3f78b0ee5f03545e327c353dc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories or appear to be part of a link farm on disposable hosting. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f39d4f43f7925652647194eca069df00/18597242971.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alarouba.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25369994740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuovartea.eu/userfiles/files/pugame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944057214cc---8697242344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipsyclinic.com/userfiles/file/20210520004732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53aa0771594db09452e9d70de3302c06/wumegenonasuvisot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tribo.kz/userfiles/File/36214825571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b79d8a8dbda---lusekupubufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yucehukuk.com/resimler/files/78333897699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e80c031cda4---67828405103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoldjogsi.hu/uploads/files/dovuwibini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pitneyclan.com/clients/c/c7/c7afcfad87c307b096642b2e35f52d25/File/sekewujebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aihr-iadh.org/uploads/FCK_files/file/25322268771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladispensadicampagna.it/uploads/assets/file/bumugaxike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c21c95eb0fd---21991261749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5c8543e9fe80adf2474ef0de2df41f7/xoluranezokowudoxofuriba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohappy.org/userData/board/file/76154620569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f72c680fcb---dololuvake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607877c3b3ec9---gorodabakozivusexozezan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vme6s8pl2ivooj67tnur5722c9/getukugotixejofisojizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8233e1860---sesirijazuloforeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bca063dec06a325d2ad29ec2ed6a7e17/doxapozofusololapujogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rk99j9qcuuq6kgg3vk0es6cvj2/60760505180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigbulkbags.ahmadpackages.com/survey/userfiles/files/javipupibutoxeneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giga-tronics.com/userfiles/files/69827566367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=benzodiazepinas+y+alcohol+pdfPDF 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_off0000d5f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE0A 18124 bytes
SHA-256: 83de89082b2090c08ea529446baf71ad3889a7fb0482232dfa080a26920f2b7f
font_02_sfnt_off00011d17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D17 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 9b81be12bb7c0c83665c3817f71ed159d78d87aab791a730f0cc71d65453d6b8