Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 100b0b6b76dcb7e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-09-15 16:44:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 994667106d565f37f10a62646939d8b5 SHA-1: 1c1154841a762fcdc4960d9e0e0211ef3de39ffa SHA-256: 100b0b6b76dcb7e7ad2ebae131de69bbf55e1015715e731d2b15a36f04176f9a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=new+gta+5+online+money+glitch PDF link annotation
    • http://amoy-art.com/Upload/file/fotisolaxuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloudinfo01.smartevolve.com/images/ckeditor/files/32219183696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b306b7dd9beb8878ced329d3feb041b8/94159724069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lyna-garage.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/79997633599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassungsdienst4you.de/bilder/file/pofavovofamegig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udelimpa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zamijerineziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.luthier-auxerre.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74771582738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ca64d9945c---gaxepabapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preiss.at/upload_files/files/zevexemudikipuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd4b93bb9efac644b1c65ddfa41e58b4/15154890662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/2021991955252405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashcruis.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1714356ab198d3a820e6c2529f51c3ce/91591802718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ddca4c19fb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naoshima-habitant.com/images/blog/file/jubonaberoxikebosawur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://condosworld.com/abisol1/userfiles/files/ritavarofuxewosopizowogew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menlopark.com/wysiwygfiles/file/85769919087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terlickodds.cz/www/www/fckphotos/file/13458137150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wlpp.net/images/blog/file/tipogigobewas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sistemkabin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gigifogawefetaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedria.es/DOCUMENTS/FotosFCKEditor/file/5061738662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contelex.it/userfiles/files/xugifodunomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141ac86edd0a---62454493186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhahangthanghuong.com/uploads/files/dulunolifipotilibazib.pdfIn 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://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_off0000b0a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0A0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8B7 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 03bda2901fd9b1672f3ec1f6b38458210e0358a8849cb3ba78dbb3791fa6a2ee
font_02_sfnt_off0000e13c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE13C 15068 bytes
SHA-256: 76562d863a38eefe698ea290e319bf6864ded6ec0c6c54bcc8969bbb7a6469b0