Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0cb64e96418e0b32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-07-06 18:57:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 40483a6b00b9bf77ef01c754eab0c69c SHA-1: 2c5523ab16efb71aded373a4229f52a2dfb05a0f SHA-256: 0cb64e96418e0b325a76f4f26b3e16df764f5920bc78fda3cff2bdc7be7b99f2
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 ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm structure strongly suggests an attempt to lure users into clicking through to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://zxpgw.com/userfiles/file/82216653147.pdf
    • http://beloezoloto.ru/userfiles/file/lavodurijadurisexega.pdf
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24cc32a756c7fd5644633fd84b301b79/worotowitukuvafilu.pdf
    • https://condicionamentofisico.com/arquivos/file/xofufe.pdf
    • http://guilfordvikingsclassof81.com/clients/4/47/479b0a304b4cdce99dfe3eda73a59016/File/70893653014.pdf
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074dbf39ba53---masodakimufuvasi.pdf
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d04e1c6a02---90086646495.pdf
    • https://cissud.com/uploads/ck_editor/files/36043106611.pdf
    • http://ledseoul.com/userData/board/file/tukobos.pdf
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce64e9eed2c---wugene.pdf
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c288afed78514232f3d011ebe94cb41/vukuzeligoju.pdf
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5d948eb432---24390511286.pdf
    • https://soalmatematik.com/userfiles/file/28673436069.pdf
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/33734640264.pdf
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/mepuferitefadoxetafode.pdf
    • http://abwrva.com/uploads/files/jujixote.pdf
    • http://bigband-ulm.de/userfiles/files/vuzezixokijuvexagekime.pdf
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/71462192662.pdf
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/87420391351.pdf
    • https://marljivo.hr/userfiles/file/sabur.pdf
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a067205bd42---kamudurumosenomerinijejur.pdf
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4c8b128735---lilevovumavuveradosavos.pdf
    • https://giverny-bkk.com/upload/files/10769688446.pdf
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/071e72c932341b914d3d3f8f8007f86b/budulaludakuxeb.pdf
    • http://zaragozalawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/lalamarir.pdf
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f3f3b3bf6---birelodobamufowijaf.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=best+trailing+stop
    • 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
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9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF76A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010f81.bin
7985d9a7a15697c0a0de8467651d75ae633c9e610b15bd087ba98e2e133ca17c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F81 10480 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001276f.bin
f249a40e7cf3f25f9c1c6ade46f3989df4f1352cd870fba348e566677aa3b4e8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1276F 17108 bytes