Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0c935e28021f63b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-08-01 21:48:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 825c1299d8f6963d92e651131ffd0a53 SHA-1: 007e59530a1ad415065ff35b994e750a4696989b SHA-256: b0c935e28021f63b170b21d092fc2d8b2da751436430cbda0794b6634955986c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites that host additional PDF files. This suggests a multi-stage attack designed to lure users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed1b1be311ab9bcb6b1b629e2d73a9fc/kelasopu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86a25eb8b983cfb5c3feeb407e47c8db/37965387471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jbo2182qipi7qjtu5io4k8h9mg/vurud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimosusto.eu/userfiles/files/jukegixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bjqojl2pmrgkr4p80nfqg129em/36198549058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c584c3e7e17---74985465207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77da0d2d56bdfd03177287ff7b1401a2/22261324584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terminsk.by/pics/files/46296444420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d256f92283---68647395142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrmax.ca/clients/9797/File/96634201153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6d3c04b974cc4daa44ecc54abbc22f3/ropib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf15ac750850c565e34ace613856552c/wenaremexixev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpidia.com/contents//files/58153728083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chonburi33.com/userfiles/file/kexugol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160798c5ca3222---bafanerunilokunojulezuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5eff0e2f89ffd01fcbc2f9c3c9f12ba7/23088793493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b76ccedb951b95a4109b157d7914806/55302741139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b788397f8e0---torodezedegix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607baf61cd768---61777011113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d676127d27b---sojotodaxefowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4464093671---xisexusibafozetexerak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607027c284c54---51635522632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=komedi+moderen+gokil+full+movie+lk21PDF 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_off0000e4c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCD7 17496 bytes
SHA-256: 6ec92cb0f233e70e92b1ced8574cedaf05f98035fce4f2175c3ad084c2de7689
font_02_sfnt_off00012b1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B1C 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 836520f893fe611ab5e5909628068dcf4000050400434b679f691f499dc3e755