Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d0b86cbb2ba4374…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-09-21 21:07:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 0df2248ba854f87c24e9d7f9942669f0 SHA-1: d5721dca2e333c5e6c4ce4de16899c28b5721ede SHA-256: 0d0b86cbb2ba4374f79997a0c4fea6c4590acc4bad14964c5e81b7a780c9b45a
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supported by heuristics identifying the PDF as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, likely contains instructions or lures related to the embedded URLs. The presence of numerous links to potentially compromised or disposable domains suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or facilitate phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://snbedu.com/uploadfile/file///2021090910213250.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://3eyamaichi.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210905025333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fyna.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lunowizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rafaellopezehijo.com/upload/files/70634137423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r9mfb0gkkdltc5h450sb2otm05/lagelelumezonizev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141738c8d52d---zosuwewabajasufosed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iact2001.com/userData/board/file/rexerewelunodipefewugoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/nefidonaxunopinanununibeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swhwsolution.it/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/45355188604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2s771qkii3s957mc079dh0ato4/88850456089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibrahimkoc.com/images/Media/files/18876645500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maurovalleferroarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/vinezufuzulasofar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idosekotthonaveresegyhaz.hu/files/files/zejojubufifawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gites-les-bardots.com/userfiles/file/48215766948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halmar.info/userfiles/file/96136632535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chi-kara.net/userfiles/file/kexeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulf-rope.com/images/bulk_images/files/69502799013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zochrot.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lutirobiwidirasoketo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medic-pneumolog.ro/fisiere/file/180144311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polresseluma.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/14372473742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/94006846104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=barcode+scanner+javaPDF 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_off0000bf57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF57 16832 bytes
SHA-256: d15cff6d28a1e168cfc051d927d7e1327f0e5c2bdb881ec5cf776428a5c9190a
font_01_sfnt_off0000eac0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAC0 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 9b291f9d1f0ee58479fe4abc82e80ba8a74af1c26a757173305844188aa746d7
font_02_sfnt_off00010265.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10265 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1