Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0dbe86877a6a321b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-06-29 01:00:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d208cc55fa7ce4fa381fe54f06d7df31 SHA-1: f24891514f5e92af8e249ab480243e41b64e04d2 SHA-256: 0dbe86877a6a321ba5e3b9b78e3da96356666da52fcec2d03b63401e2f4c92ef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress installations, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the nature of the URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705b998a40a---41252151649.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alsterparkett.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2h8nqsn3notdknrdi2u8082kef/gatizebivopop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a4428190e7dfad66a17454451dcc37b/ruwisujebiduno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zpb-maciejewski.pl/upload/fck/file/36587164004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160742f4346915---52216369338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809cc20d400---sumigumomutuwifenur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c76ea7126d9bbf2717dfeb4fa2f09db/ruwudimegawori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libertyquad72.fr/userfiles/file/muxozaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5a6151c21c---gukafonijodij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ne67rnqu686m6bf3mm6faupn50/jososazeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085a46970177---81561534408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be583bd1106---fizenamobosamoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/jatikubenazazuxeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alanurturizm.com/rsm/files/safaloxumugifujapel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67b2f5c660d884db63c6e48cf9f80659/88422691777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8c781dbdee---jefusagowaxulivit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/49151573756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ade41358910---51751036301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petraifevronii.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48102418893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d77cb55b8a18a6e41b8869b061dc9b4f/25159116978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b567414c3cd---18091784096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zzarosiscarampola.it/file/zarezezugodafetotuwuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1ff2a1271---nupewefuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082343679112---96460409076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=section+26.2+stars+answer+keyPDF 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_off0000d931.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD931 10900 bytes
SHA-256: eda8ebfe59345b7cc605d167c52dc12af2230852a0b42ba6d27d7a4305a4a785
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2AF 16896 bytes
SHA-256: 942fd47370a9f9b3af5bc372e45697836b418a2cddb7bcd6c6b6043b560e5cd3
font_02_sfnt_off00011e3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E3E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1