Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0bc83932bab490b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-07-28 05:18:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 2fadaf45508d2ab959aedf8f1db481b9 SHA-1: 872f24820de3e714ed216050c574fc6b79240473 SHA-256: 0bc83932bab490b1b3ead6d6b1322f41875d89000c491254569f0c3ce3d16257
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings clearly indicate a malicious link distribution pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://pho32shabu.com/uploads/files/55788896525.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://airsoft1.ro/files/file/viworetasozemurujefowakaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946116a763e---8220695874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa4ef06f594---98624292843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f9dddd81d4---fudabirufokemalovelekuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkkpcm.org/userfiles/tileluluripulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c782d5130---87298399030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohappy.org/userData/board/file/nixitafiworedolevefexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d-a-s.cn/userfiles/file/wosona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23d71cdc1947838bdc4838cb338e958e/kiwabajupazajuzuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1eb2cf6824e65e80f7c7cba87ad5c0cd/35304785849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cddfct.com/up_files/file/pikakam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087791ca0f54---sopek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/na8jpeida66n8g09s18i3qasv4/risuvifazaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5348a29db106cedf21d8d02715a299c9/sazanupabilupoxavopib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olympusflights.com/files/files/97917944374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ilu3e8itv86l9f6qm60ivble61/neluti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahamianbrewery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nitogarubagadiluzise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duda-tech.pl/dudatech/upload/file/55453005383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a0d9753d68b87d6c42d47447be585de/jowivezudal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cdaed9289c---nutikerepikonus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=atomic+habits+summary+notesPDF 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_off0000e8ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8AD 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 361c826ea12c22934707179a484df66d71f2cf7ec48d039524910de35d820480
font_01_sfnt_off00010161.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10161 16748 bytes
SHA-256: f7f22ee8fe3bb5407908eabbf95707d8f16d0f5df5d8f0b9e18d23607575fd52
font_02_sfnt_off00012d20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D20 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1