Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f2e05dd8374611c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.2 KB Created: 2021-06-27 22:18:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: be78fb66cd9b06a3d4439328edfc71c7 SHA-1: 22660c58e5f35b6294e30f75bf4bb4fbab6127c8 SHA-256: 0f2e05dd8374611cbb44c01022697c52ff1256c8099ba99b43e46afc7f472237
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple links on potentially disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e2face839---votijozufupiripusu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d211900d77---riduwolugatejibokerasij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://decoveinvestment.com/userfiles/file/podabuvuwemizebesizebada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072799f2e9c2---vukamajuxonov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160771ff54612b---xorugonujona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f67bc29cc---vajizolawevipat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c63b12f86b---20653797635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/gepolufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detskaoptika.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41089664729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607987c80ab20---wisuvisilekonomebax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ca83352ac01e299c1259fa357107598/70617554727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e4c6ddc91b16ca1bfc3eace27c19f86/sifomajeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088861b9d121---woditoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d56ea0a398---bemijixowepini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcoderesearch.com/uploads/11160659751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winfielddeli.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67313790282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/rogij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5de20b9cd56e55aeeed4f3f3315244bc/lininewijerowapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f8505c72ef7239e5917f491cff86f88/detaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f5a86d243a---6996696697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vune536tj0oi0buukhge8r9tkd/54301737617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbe31c3942---68747444046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=vector+calculus+for+electromagnetism+pdfPDF 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_off00013ed8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13ED8 11032 bytes
SHA-256: fc0d9335daef922e33857e75ef7e2709dc6133c62ba83a78ede0da4f7788cb47
font_01_sfnt_off0001584b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1584B 17900 bytes
SHA-256: 71bb89df3608f40d9bcb33ebbbb02b6c3d6636a56dfdef505962ad58f6980743
font_02_sfnt_off000187a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x187A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1