Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0bdcf62e16b891e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-07-10 09:03:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 9f1bb0fb20070f5766b253f309cd377a SHA-1: 4a2b51ef5fc1be0e3b7359905d3a761510109bc3 SHA-256: 0bdcf62e16b891e972341eed6c1a49bfdc71074ec97aa747fb733039400be8bb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as a distribution mechanism for phishing content or further malware. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://www.bocamvigliesrooms.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2d402552a6b31a459309ae3a4dccaf6/19699076106.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mn1ag84ri28slouvq4o66o3l7v/37484330141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4aef4612092617844792e8e074fddb7b/457604985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekotop.eu/userfiles/file/fokerufitoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25baca85e4---514028395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd49c61194---1628449771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ab1236ccc75473243ed697551abb2ed/54183627011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wedding-ideas.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/teronivewatuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8e37dd6cc8---rivufanogiwufuxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c019b79b805---94740251378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a70b9445e9e---ludasugozevukedeboni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd3e825828---jixivejezas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf30ae7b269---12290638707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landi-bg.com/images/file/20141979885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607476ba5a23a---42244564430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chickenwild.com/upload/contents/images/images/xikazaderivenubozediz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d795e4443c---wesulegofitewokokopidol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdd947e6e5fde3a1185abffd9127de42/rizuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876345f0f15---tilikimejuguviluvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0cb062d244---85019276473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43f909c398---zizezixonedipafiwukuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l05inbv7cqm0r7hmef4p0p4d23/51650261192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmobilewebsite.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1076a9429291804509cb688453d7586a/10613052902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=skin+care+tips+quotesPDF 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_off00010abd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ABD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000122cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122CF 17256 bytes
SHA-256: ad7e6140a80c396bd04af50d8cdc2de4e221e4a1246551d05763e2b5a4eec6e8
font_02_sfnt_off00014f8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F8A 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 2956688259377904743e0cd42707d42bc88f41a2b7d7807eb904b3cc1892a369