Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d04cb7dfcbf0ecd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 13:06:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 78baa1ca60eee8e0c714e12fed36f3cc SHA-1: 4d13ab4932431b1e02eac0b3737e6d8ad32bcd6a SHA-256: 0d04cb7dfcbf0ecd7fd78859e6705cdd901bd51616cba4cc43331afeec79bfd0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites, acting as a link farm. Several heuristics indicate this is a link farm on disposable hosting, and one specifically flags a link to a compromised CMS upload. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ao952glnvnk0aok1dovr5ga1ni/23861768315.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ef33dcf82---43066888837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bienenaktuell.com/sites/bienenaktuell.com/files/file/58099274544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qh062frn2iq08ifa663d6ro8d6/topina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c713b35b5f6---56938748919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b51632019---pisefedojivinet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4d93fac57b---petudove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mmbdpcbjklg1q42vj6eihaqhvi/33599988572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d439a6a7c4---39120037135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikansambel.com/contents//files/bosogarafewuvomema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077e4a6a5822---47097495802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brette-animation.com/userfiles/file/99536484210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081fd082551a---96479359153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caratow.eu/userfiles/file/furimozonowakugesikuzit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibshop.gr/uploads/_uploads/files/tapufowapagabokegopoder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olgapolyakova.com/files/files/zaxofuvuvonakujurega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d247d90a941---66873904175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innovad-ltd.com/userfiles/file/40760065780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/wasufulepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/29171309973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/37343663549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/11460263807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097586fdd06f---pujagusegoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klcmekatronik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zinuwirugadog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blueoak.fr/image/file/15949016874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=triangle+proofs+answersPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_003_off0000e711.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xE711 16880 bytes
SHA-256: aa7ebc1a542e7bbdd589902670801c35a8104e80a4ebbc3665324dadba7e1391
font_00_sfnt_off0000ceff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEFF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000112f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112F7 10484 bytes
SHA-256: 64e54061bde5f1c6e4a661f64fd9d054a4a15fb7c9ff4161f73eef52bb098aeb
font_03_sfnt_off00012ae9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AE9 16168 bytes
SHA-256: 34837fdfed7e6dc9e8c1ebc45eabef1064a6e89f8cd536305124148a4af1fb29