Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f3b71ad76a14dd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-06-29 04:08:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 62827e100bb41a8bf38d06513b8428bf SHA-1: e8fbc0828a1c5661c4d405e447be1ed7d15d5588 SHA-256: 0f3b71ad76a14dd59d215b4bca77ce31a83d46745d652e9cd9c59e58391c04ca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly indicates a malicious intent to redirect users to external, untrusted resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/gupedorogaxuged.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44b2f3cfda3bddcd1c6a139f99d57393/81684309098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd97879cj0vbs1ot4tph5b3sgt/29158947112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89jif6tj50ibc2l1b67vedk767/48283415534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edumedcare.pl/upload/files/35314604310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c4ee9471e75ded59877ad0c3c4c1e25/25913863438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944c878dcde---15215827860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a86d1aa9893---47142825133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75hthrmeh357d3bf8mo4ikfh90/jofolomiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://247christianity.org/fckeditor/userfiles/file/415017161561621817654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkorphotographyguide.com/userfiles/file/14063792581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://global-brand.net/userfiles/files/43652976753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipiland.net/upload/file/82624416069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://focostrade.com/files/20210620042618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4c225162d5---60355557523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5b4c7e5ecde6a69595dd3501571b38b/55242470808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonanbinh.com/userfiles/file/niziragafizevudadigugej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df197bba46b41ad30528be47f62abbd1/dimerakikojered.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5eb5fd068dc53b533a38fcc1f77ac1d1/95909232176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otelm4b.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wekesoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c87d520e1---veruxonizupobavuzudur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea08460eb3209721c274494ef0469cf0/nipesirasexupiwosasamow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=inspections+over+coffeePDF 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_off0000f8e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000110fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110FD 10284 bytes
SHA-256: 93984fac4d714c5c576b26d372170de68ed3b9c430a898ca185d124f03d0907c
font_02_sfnt_off00012845.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12845 18012 bytes
SHA-256: 5acc96524d7b671bbb8accf242c99401e9276ebd173a5892b0fa0797c36aa88b