Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0bc887c4170c863c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-04 02:15:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 65a48575243602836a4be66fcb101cf0 SHA-1: 52153fe36c8aee1c45c8474240d76ce7317f97f8 SHA-256: 0bc887c4170c863c474ac11abe68ff643f72cdffe9c8af43a0d0f61fb3866a2f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. This suggests the document is part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely using these compromised sites to host malicious payloads or redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4ca4ec249a---87237593066.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://searchlink.org/userfiles//file/lewibaxijojotoxumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africareview.in/userfiles/file/70137049032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50818ad8697be30b796419380bb5bfef/rosovejigosogebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hj7k95qh8fvgk7gd8nhrqr45c1/jumowazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084af5e9a8dc---gowasegikusobid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/273610ede2865e2ffa588d32effb8d09/84887689188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56a24f244a89280315f802186d745723/57743439847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://51-lq.com/userfiles/file///rinaronofelevatipinubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d42a9953c558d6926520d3b4fc22cbc/64307980295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///rikovutewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/79955704104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6e3077929---nizojadutiliwovok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d31872f9d3ec4925d2197183b225a752/90203847044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seigyobannkaigaikikaku.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94516667671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b04e4cfc86ffaf43172cb75ede5747e2/wisafokazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iqntnt2es7uem9supur4odkd82/86245190743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c201760b7c7ca8f3ee2389c47e89bd8/57335411018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/wivir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8998a0b10a---wawinabinuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l8j1delfvdnf9mlqqjj9pfjlj1/wubag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tydafa.com/dafa/uploadfiles/20210618021024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b05b13538---xilekonopil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=cost+to+frame+1500+sq+ft+housePDF 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_off0000ec91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC91 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000104a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104A8 10820 bytes
SHA-256: c398493c949351bee5eb23e9dc4f0ded3fa1f90c345775461d2883dec1bc10ce
font_02_sfnt_off00011dc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DC2 18036 bytes
SHA-256: f295c9334ba7c2b697c1fcbf2e9bb39104f6c2007e5219ef2b0b23690d8d3c6c