Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f3bcdc6713c6e6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-30 08:23:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: bd9577b123ec84e63d09113d998028a4 SHA-1: d387c20296d611b38c2e6cbba428b3e5e44cb592 SHA-256: 0f3bcdc6713c6e6f78540fcc59d99208aa7af683855d83603678ce15898a3f6c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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 https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b4c78970ec---76694040298.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c86fcd1a03---gagefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0fba592e22---xokufatumokanojaduko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dukeofmarshall.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65267011204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc371c6e81---xapajelaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumnerclassof1976.com/clients/4/49/49b54eafcc86ae0c30eb104ab8b91c7c/File/duwimozatot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9u6sl0vrqdt1e3e161qbp5d2n1/zesoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/zanowekenajerowutepalaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb47a309495---sijijigupedovuxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1voq1koqhpp8hh2s92cpbb2l20/judamuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607948af55e8a---7498194942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fc082ebe0bc9c8e3cdaeae301b09a73/73316743251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miroslaws.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94078586090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081ec4b62b44---nusidupepuwuxasavuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6bf7f981a5---taxetozatoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/43016857707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tortugafilms.ca/adminfiles/file/67855648335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushipickup.com/uploads/files/tekimipuwagoripovolif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e2035dc2e---54671938606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aggengr.com/uploads/CMS/file/28082611133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a98ddca5452---biwajonuvixiwegumakisipot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piemonteforyou.it/userfiles/file/27549343993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=capitalismo+socialismo+e+democracia+%281942%29+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_off0000ee88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE88 11284 bytes
SHA-256: c7bfdf77edc23701be89d0fbd00f327fe557cc808063fdf133a5ea905d9e8a54
font_01_sfnt_off00010945.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10945 18432 bytes
SHA-256: dd0fbc86da5519a524b451691ec7e4b14916d3bf78149b207a880f63c170b3da
font_02_sfnt_off00013623.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13623 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1