Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f53728488e21fc4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-07-04 13:22:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 0b2077d1f10da8c306b7f38cbd11bb89 SHA-1: 7eeecdbf137ebd1125967005b8321bbca6fa7745 SHA-256: 0f53728488e21fc45cf66f89cf6a53080b6a621412e59467cea2292745a398d0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm directing users to numerous external URLs, with several hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL structure and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.pzkexie.com/up_files/file/80840358599.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1bet.net/contents//files/guvafopapuxipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e8fd7c4548---zuboxijeduji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnvhardoi.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6110887772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fanaf.comarticle_ressources/file/kegasog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160824dc6338a2---rawagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad2e497efcc---temexosawanozoxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qi6o5nn443gagclso30sa97bc7/livatis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alquilerbares.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5d41b2f30---bezifufemodagekipel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dishandspoonproductions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73624528536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/357bc4e6ecb904e25180e763a4b28476/waxokadoviretusime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/64838896298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://folientastaturen.pl/_data/file/81220168194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dolgoprudny.ru/upload_picture/file/88598614356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af27eae1ea4---51159132599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad9849995f9---35886666212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be36bea7b145ab2761bd19540d871c6d/78314255945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90dd855b4c49941c11726e41fab3fccd/likamarivikuvoxapafeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computer-rudolstadt.de/upload/file/sedudavovuravepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/5860729321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilalyapidekorasyon.com/userfiles/file/73254617063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076953712502---pofizidulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5844e3f0f9fa16b1268020b8a91bd81/54938256321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/23256834931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608263893110a---vexuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+h2o+stand+forPDF 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_off0000bd15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD15 16524 bytes
SHA-256: d776c6c75cad44a0ab74bbcb1a40f119974c165ed5bc0009294f8084294fb8f9
font_01_sfnt_off0000e839.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE839 10428 bytes
SHA-256: 251713d9a60fdf99fdc726489bda4adbeb207c3ab1f493dce511327f83c1b3c4
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffe8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFE8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1