Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0bf14cbf62afff9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-06-25 18:15:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: f0d3b9f32a85559e51e8c79d30925976 SHA-1: 597e9a5e60d006d2e442030ab273140fe0dcf6e9 SHA-256: a0bf14cbf62afff96adfa0ea1ec1c6a4230260b99e93f72b26b441496cbbef2e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, indicating a malicious intent to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support this assessment. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear instructions, but the overall structure and heuristic firings suggest a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ee1bf7ae3a---8631898029.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160851dbc83876---97082396356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a2u894e1kg8rqsdibfldi110k/pajulegizufubuser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meruzhankhachatryan.com/app/webroot/files/file/puwobetuxisuwibiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uniformsolutionsforyou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cfeaea47e5---kutek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd27fa93ca6bf8d35dee404f633862bb/galitirofiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beateromer.com/bilder/file/lalemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c152951f390---bixenizumoxuturafuxifomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160820678e333a---redikutipumoxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce8e00bd11b57ced41a7d919c490c63a/59186935601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greece-ex.com/images/blog//file/2715408060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fonfe.com/uploads/files/xiwop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b3981ab0edb534d037df9f0c3e1fc3a/5301792546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5s1u46nfnfr670r6cm25v1k555/9761852102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53a3386b69c321837319683c983b91ce/mabijewizov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f45da043b---piwiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/314ec8eb32488efd999d30f87611656d/34975905453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6f1c1de24---gipew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c40253b3ad---48188753975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090ac73bd0e6---letip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northernillumination.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e99e9f1c93bbba79ae3816252881816/ruterebowotofilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sfera-vlad.ru/img/file/24558544819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748b0971485---48324368580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kangs78.com/clients/66216/File/81719938382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=brown+coffee+norodomPDF 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_off0000eb85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB85 17744 bytes
SHA-256: 15547ad4c8840b24d9c44bb8af220005a1796738f7fd4d97a4c375f1cf053c53
font_01_sfnt_off00011a4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A4E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013265.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13265 10212 bytes
SHA-256: e75ac0b781c698a41f7fd920c5262c8cbf66ee1ccdc9005f5a7c122308277628