Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0bc94510218a4aac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-07-14 02:45:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: f6837d2e566c24eba5b74d19542db56b SHA-1: 6982c9da1de79bb3e7b3fbcfdfcedd072ca3568d SHA-256: 0bc94510218a4aac50092ea65497a17a38f47531dc97dab2f7a1ee1d8bc9717b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, specifically targeting the 'formcraft' plugin's file upload functionality. This pattern is indicative of a phishing or malware distribution scheme, aiming to lure victims through these compromised hosts. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious nature of this file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160812ecd4b618---jepawonakuferodatisobik.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b060a25b0---febolutetaroritesabor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105100118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatoodesign.com/userfiles/files/zigav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/25315779118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://positiveforce.in/uploads/files/vuletapabaseguterapafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070bff9cd142---xojimegogigepomuduru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/mofamamojupiramediriwugop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evrenmentese.com/upload/ckfinder/files/50337460780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5bjgbbpt6ip7qrb54qpnjpnlv/beragivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b28dd72f70---15494114775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b3cd6fa4b467bd7524de2097d55b405/87552872891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carstenrath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fl20nvcn1kisnh3uajp7qncq81/turevineluzelito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h51p9rrh71f4m3nkr0n2qgfgrk/76586081338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8ff277a663---mosutelojikutiduziso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decamiones.com/userfiles/file/jomonarabefoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thediamangroup.com/_images/files/dekemegebuzinajufisozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccf144d6774599f86da6a1ad69159b77/17188680909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e46cc46515---webujekazarafirud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ef460644df---dewabotojevijofotogoturid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaaaaikdebj9ccf1ayja1b5a3q.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34509003728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18b17e4e12b136bf107fc0fa9f29154c/kiwenedefip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=ppp+method+lesson+planPDF 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_off0000f0bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000108d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108D1 16912 bytes
SHA-256: 9a1b44f642c44c26c35c5310a31408d3c7247c7dc3e60039b8bd54546e9e1fd8
font_02_sfnt_off0001352f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1352F 10468 bytes
SHA-256: db125526c0c73d24fec626982854c67f61a6d71d4f0a076734bcdbf79f403049