Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0bc536ded5cd9ad8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-09-10 07:51:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e079c031404a3bdc73500c585201e230 SHA-1: 39c1467b0221a0013ec7de365299d74062a757da SHA-256: 0bc536ded5cd9ad8fb12aa449d4e832410f808e9ed180682797937fbda9dcc99
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated high maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially malicious content. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of multiple unknown URLs strongly suggests a phishing or redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613932405ac8c---xukopifidewepikikuguzivuj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gz-chengeng.com/uploadfile/files/korize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/080219333303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132107f4f7d9---83316260463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kop-trans.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/lowosuvemezevujiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldendazzle.com/upload/quangtri/files/gevimogapepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irantruck.ir/data/file/fopupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stsaischoolamritsar.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/xexuboxebesapoligapejiput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sfeerweter.nl/userfiles/files/wujoxifuzovupedibuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43a33330755234bf6d32f0c8b328adfd/vupodosab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungtamsangloc.vn/uploads/ck_upload/files/22988593345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saigonradio.com/userfiles/file/2706105647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lixtech.com.tw/ckfinder/ckfiles/files/35224211438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megashina24.ru/files/files/33984879544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://299-45.com/CKEdit/upload/files/11324977706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/850522536613003498543b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.utn.ac.cr/sites/default/files/files/31490510394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/tobugimexavatekutopakodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bassbasement.org/userfiles/file/7336902398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbbbizu2bxaod.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/66723789451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coomargroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ralabema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zohopinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/77748218917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petala.gr/userfiles/file/fegurove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kredoteka.ru/uploads/file/jegaxalunowivimagaxatep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ad53e94669---13271858662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=cross+platform+ios+android+frameworkPDF 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_off0000f5f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5F1 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 37ebb866ed24260affa10a28676a019983c166e0ee0979dbd099835028072805
font_01_sfnt_off00010f1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F1F 17480 bytes
SHA-256: a06a553a7dde83c8ac01d33ca628440e43be7dd38aeea5e736a79eb7f4203c19
font_02_sfnt_off00013c45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C45 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1