Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0bfa2a73a101381a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-07-25 14:09:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6cdd43c9e5313bdd7ac5261c6302cb2d SHA-1: c87a76cb165bf5a4e1d83dba8f7c9d4b4b308aa2 SHA-256: 0bfa2a73a101381afabc642105626e13370e948af5fdfb97d053f12dc37b13cc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URIs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/10156116203.pdf
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e62c566fdb1---7473456538.pdf
    • http://zpb-maciejewski.pl/upload/fck/file/jurapexutopudakiwo.pdf
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f437b6d6191---33447562489.pdf
    • https://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18d514546aadbc0e497dee6cb87b1cca/lepawugobovelatudu.pdf
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6d39abd7d966bb169dd89c03019d9bb/penanuvamivowa.pdf
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d95eddd41504eee5a3f3cf343b9bd7c6/nexijuzidile.pdf
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5cfd7e3594---28996037434.pdf
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d18275f7ed7d1326b64bcf42335cd60/16302165772.pdf
    • http://be1971.com/clients/a/a1/a19be2fc4cf8b198b52f296748481ce5/File/38603398720.pdf
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adf7cad83de8257dc69383bebe4b23f2/7066783498.pdf
    • https://dreamscapes.ca/dream_scapes/userfiles/files/39558297182.pdf
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00415f038c6e7a0ebee7987d92f76260/59562638332.pdf
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gk5khpm98p6f76iu9hb4qs0mf5/gegulovufafavebiru.pdf
    • https://ytdrive.com/CKEdit/upload/files/68069468561.pdf
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa039799d801c1150493c2b151cb1b42/72611319003.pdf
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ad8379af98ad390c3c6753f12f5a8c2/5044702957.pdf
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc9da131778---wedepasiva.pdf
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b75b1fd892d9748b2f80e459bb787046/nexakaxasigupemefaxo.pdf
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1p014ildoq9ve17limflkk1lcb/zalij.pdf
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cd1226ad38ee4c33bf7bcfa0514e975/raname.pdf
    • http://toyotaquangninh.org/data/dulieu/files/81422989674.pdf
    • https://karinbentum.nl/uploads/file/55563529795.pdf
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/zakufojevusirogopuvuvut.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=patrones+de+zapatitos+tejidos+a+crochet+para+bebes
    • 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_off0000d264.bin
9db7e056db3396a6c8e4901b074f9f9345dc7de3f6fad7a5e436d5f9d1b06625
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD264 10896 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb54.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB54 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010366.bin
58b0be273b59d6738c68338bafc897ee4efb9cd5aae6c1411f3574e12dc762f5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10366 17264 bytes