Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0dbbed7fb906c1e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2021-10-11 19:54:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 59ed74fffef91411f83f69a959219019 SHA-1: 639cd1488136854e0939626a297231e4ebe53007 SHA-256: 0dbbed7fb906c1e5b6eef5105582a55f0aa8fab88ee28daaaea949e8e585d288
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely to distribute phishing content or further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external URLs suggests a redirection mechanism to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://bjqyms.com/filespath/files/20210921141516.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wm-meyer.de/meyer/admin/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jotafebewofanesero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3t29q1rsgb3cp0nt4es7p8kbq1/gevola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dietetyka-24.pl/images/files/rogufaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkrns.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7228461466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jatechkj.pl/upload/fck/file/9152526667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5844d8f5fbbb9ca06515911cb371525a/8295131139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-mebel.ru/uploads/files/26358751863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e373533cb570733524e3ed7c276c047/zuvonotefobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surmounttravel.com/userfiles/files/65760358140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131639c72c25---noxobonemogatifedosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omni-links.com/images/blog/file/sikexujivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-sheremet.com/img/xuwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watfordfairtrade.org/app/webroot/img/files/54441728311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16152543ef289c---99983416595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://misterholidaysanprisco.it/userfiles/files/69937450034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themalc.org/files/file/99954035785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://articolo17.it/siti/usr/foto/files/19659227325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eco-building.cz/UserFiles/File/42645236888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sysquare.com/UserFiles/files/zitezevobefokufiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noospc.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/12799916517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/11840199063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161505ce26b0f7---nefano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://praktijkbinnenstad.nl/file/22991791884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Xvkpad/~3/4dZi1sgP-vI/uplcv?utm_term=what+animals+live+in+the+taiga+biomePDF 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_off0000ba2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA2A 15088 bytes
SHA-256: e57562dbddc642f0cdea5b224b81710c5c434447f2cf4b4e333945af6789b959
font_01_sfnt_off0000e051.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE051 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f868.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF868 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 10d1d287d1cf550cd9a53d9f14df96d9a21262c5a02f043861e4b199994ca233