Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0a81fca8324f71e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-06-27 03:58:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 7d2bca8896fdd5c7279226718e7c3c17 SHA-1: 7133093e2b28daa6ca042a1c27d8d4c85385a659 SHA-256: b0a81fca8324f71ee678d4af725f35f472039b56e7b4ca12eb1bb3a90557cf7e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.012 Process Injection

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links further supports this assessment.

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.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758d170dd06---21964068977.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098787e27a45---pajujuroziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec36b090c6b0733a6716474c278e9f23/69560669446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c6ceb8d61f917bf54bba0bca3f5c272/sedabinetabalokakijife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plentis.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21072328738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laplacedesstores.com/upload/file/jusifekobufopolitimola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://living-stone.lu/userfiles/files/34498680909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dda20d5cf8707e864c38936bac99f45/gozamodotumilidokovil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21c86f1389edd5873b68030d8cc7d9a3/dojivepitawugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://villatoscana-pi.it/userfiles/file/senux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6052b6f76d---tugijamoruxexejavojoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdl65l60u4ai4k27an8pa7cdh7/41723632312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daotaoyduoc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/unbgk114ihgdb11e0dffabbni9/nutuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pf7mqdf4asceleuioutug0msg0/8548437308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lysgaards.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dinogamagulofavikugatuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taiwancy.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/wiwelufen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af2c2d18300---roluroxanaragawaxemewet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1566108f9c---romovuxebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1de6e9de67113a88aafcb4259eccb6c/pamibelodabifapud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a735b490c8---jomatodudujuzojopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windsbs.biz/files/file/64787805132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coluer.ir/documents/file/buzikefumil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/tatarugejolunifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab6f40a5de6---18739268993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=features+of+ancient+egyptPDF 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_off0000eac8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAC8 16576 bytes
SHA-256: d9b5203166bd9332859ccfa84f04abe56fe9d58115dcb5a9ed1108c594f782a1
font_01_sfnt_off000115f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115F3 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 8d1b0e76cbb805d41e53c3781ce7b2b314b07a5cd270d8b9b5633b4b5e2aa883
font_02_sfnt_off00012f07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F07 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1