Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0be20e5311449c45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-06 06:58:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 67cc43d2a5585f6132d872d449bbe0f8 SHA-1: 7c2ed825529bf0b0e2ed9090dd3f523ff2c3b0ce SHA-256: 0be20e5311449c4529f8325bcb0d20dab24da0d478d3b3b4649861e9a2e03842
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The embedded URLs and the heuristic firings strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://bvsaigonbinhduong.vn/uploads/files/32586374631.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a73f200dfaecca48abb5e8a4b3c7b86/zemavivukuferifikat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triptoboloyfoundation.org/editorsfiles/files/bujunetupozonuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bouveau-consulting.com/userfiles/file/24866982583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b1e23cf90e---1720872445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abb19c9bf54---sebuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6bdcd0abec---tolanelixokalabaziba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a24c6caf935---xafomakaladipuwowusefaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab6428ec7bb65c2dab1decfba2945d87/lumovarowevow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd8c705f4b8---kikowofopapisejerumivov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhandarisurgical.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37801419180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bed2e892547---tikawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d82094b9274bed230c19d6bdf801a9c9/80692118151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rybarict.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/varozotenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58dl0n40403ek2vhou8omnqts4/subikuwudunexixodajob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g7in3plo6vvvf5e8vo23ige7r2/25591702636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/piwemuwofizewuxapig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefencedocumentary.com/adminfiles/file/garol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e151296ff---sovulefanulabusim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4fee9f2c19---wafisigoludatiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087ab9b4e194---baber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/579c8affbed091d9c5c627c13530f28e/18654154704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podlahypilat.cz/admin/file/38671019782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=starch+structure+amylose+and+amylopectinPDF 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_off0000f047.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF047 17216 bytes
SHA-256: 52aadf3aecfaea545e5f81cd5dc38d8ca45ae4980e36886311c6a2efc8d0cde2
font_01_sfnt_off00011cfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CFB 11068 bytes
SHA-256: 1856fd0cd52457778a8841d3361bb79cd5399f0025477e49f84f01322f6d4c4f
font_02_sfnt_off00013697.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13697 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1