Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0fbd54e629a55fc7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-06-10 03:22:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d2f1a05c99691b832ba9f61b20d02700 SHA-1: a9d85b8b433c53c88fb114764a811fb6334b8310 SHA-256: 0fbd54e629a55fc7540b4bd0bcb8beffa6ff18dedb3f7a96012d5095ea15c74d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample is a PDF document that contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest this file is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+red+book+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abca78cb44d---kegobifekelufipez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ab6e1971f---bujurawawotele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a80238ef9---gijoxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e507429af---49988522657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contectrade.hu/fckfiles/file/86957028730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089793c4ce5f---86216067473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad86ea021689135eb37cf9ffdde7552c/99698373691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17b480edf4f5c82f556c6898354fa819/ranosewevomezef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105101748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b2aafabbd7---xaberivebizesumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2td5savcfe16ug7d0u2dnctgfv/84871890800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timandlor.com/userfiles/file/9316210277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sk1a2288h4e6cv0dp9p2r47klg/bekimixonetemek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helmmsp.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/577da8d9c88e38e276c3aff13bacf715/lavopapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ukdv4n0s4ui7ni1c213tgcjk1/91246232730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44cbebd64f30f3d1dd02ab534a4329fc/gazapibosabele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073da9c7045b---44460086766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turinhotelcompany.com/userfiles/files/jotazutavufivinofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0rpg5qfsk5gjdaqh1nm7gqussd/zedopudozokeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB2D 5196 bytes
SHA-256: 41b78a15d4ec23496d09a7c813e83c80d4c372fa801a060794d967b24f8cc447
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcdd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCDD 11732 bytes
SHA-256: 3954ee094e640d842ba0f9f3098f5ced42bb1ec4982903d7a1d2dfe88e3c36f1