Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0bfb288d2b660f65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-06-10 01:35:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 26881962c7f805e13838c97b90b5a736 SHA-1: a9eee5ac0bf7574c19e48a21c0f556128b80e270 SHA-256: 0bfb288d2b660f65e22d3b3d13490f0430ef2198b866f1b9294bdde29ca4d96d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata related to its creation, which does not directly indicate malicious intent but is part of the overall suspicious structure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+online+emulator+for+chrome PDF link annotation
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfaad766c96---45965111012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e5b26816f1---maxuzabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petukmahaaaraj.com/userfiles/file/44170817931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leo-translate.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed676d2529---52547692060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160708f565ad35---75953806242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c990c8bd4098b1801f2100dba02ddab1/29161153090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160776bca1286c---nakoruxejitaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wagaskar.com/media/nopivawubuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/setokakikitar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vddlgnnesjonqcmjsg49djmvtn/wumatiretijuxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aabc287a3a8---risibasamasubumerum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j5p3g54938q36po0aq52e0iak3/63747776229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c858dc3a78---903796741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/tadudufov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7caf7f1ca57499bb11bb08202c0b27c3/11150793284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d15cb9f3e---96924975297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d4m1qt97nnkia62596bq8rkuh/17043488659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landia-print.com/pdir/file/notetolenesipelusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED7A 4952 bytes
SHA-256: 308911f13c67445e01b9954e23a29f7dac1d0e66caedaeb76cbb94cdfca6b09f
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE17 11288 bytes
SHA-256: b5cfbf1d70751dc77e6b34894390e48aa49a985b46dd3652fba467fb5dfe1ca2
font_02_sfnt_off0001247c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1247C 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361