Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0bd27630e3392d53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 23:23:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ea83dc6a6f8a54212b1a3046059c8b70 SHA-1: 261c766337e9ae203f6e8e50cc137805e13f75fd SHA-256: 0bd27630e3392d53c81b61e3c1f27022e50c8c332527b8deb1fbba740de982d5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, likely to lure users into downloading further malicious content or submitting sensitive information. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs suggests a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 https://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fundamentals+of+physics+solutions+9th+edition+pdf
    • http://donateagift.eu/userfiles/file/naluzodeduwevulowonuvot.pdf
    • https://windfreeklima.com/upload/ckfinder/files/kawasopid.pdf
    • https://wodepcb.cn/uploadfiles/files/miwagoxutozo.pdf
    • http://xn--3e0b556bhrbowi6undva.com/ckupload/files/sumowufukamumeni.pdf
    • http://ubestsports.com/imager/files/20210731132843.pdf
    • http://laxycoffee.com/upload/files/jesexifolawafolo.pdf
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9068ef19d70d19b913139a14d4a46b5b/wowuweginaledi.pdf
    • http://gorillatheory.com/admin/upload/file/wovezad.pdf
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eca2370ee684cf91f3f9502fe78b5d39/44503041352.pdf
    • http://guojingmall.com/userfiles/file///dadiwabexiwep.pdf
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9cadc6359b---21075394537.pdf
    • http://ngocvietbungalow.com/upload/files/26513433224.pdf
    • http://corising.info/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210723205939.pdf
    • https://tolgyesvolgy.hu/userfiles/file/piwuxamax.pdf
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082bbb55dbdf---45502843348.pdf
    • http://www.yankey.com.tw/demo/public/editor/ckfinder/upload/user_upload/files/4736211242.pdf
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e3e2089f21---40508774483.pdf
    • https://tennis94.fr/img/pics/files/32391774875.pdf
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4b5c269d92ca94320c3256ea68d7250/49920399988.pdf
    • https://laatjehuisweerstralen.nl/upload/file/11549728843.pdf
    • https://www.pactforfamilies.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rimofadozikavelapeleguzi.pdf
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608065b7e7dc5---dubagorowapafawinokavav.pdf
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e518f2665d4f1be1bcb332b99d812dce/47194348282.pdf
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t77ggef0at2f651ofm01i0d7i7/94560546395.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cf9a.bin
180b5b40f78818ff8dee7e45f3513cc173128f8afd2492114588919c9ab81dcf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF9A 11144 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e977.bin
f425f825246ce39ad0b2a4e9c8d48a4c1bdf8d5894fc0d00af50df4b9f6e7a51
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE977 17368 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011677.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11677 16792 bytes