Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0d2bc9d73514701…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-08-15 00:52:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: c999e5deae19d82d5e2a6a8e0440100b SHA-1: 7c7eb486b50b4727a18b9fa08a1c437ddf309588 SHA-256: b0d2bc9d73514701a12eb4df7861dd54191bd4d6b4dc8008ad0cf7b11babaf31
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF containing numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, specifically phishing. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of techniques used to deliver malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc05269e5ec3a7b5a131337c9ba3ac58/wupibo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160819cf99115a---55553032064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10kshot.com/customerinterview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bimukanezazelisivutubaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkbca.org/UploadFiles/file/20210529222311101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armagedonspedycja.pl/files/file/70090816625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://run2endalz.org/clients/2/2b/2b4973775a35d8819257a28a16fdea67/File/subisun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109a79dd44c8---zutidilomavijirororelaxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/569abcdd632322d3031de248ce0eabaa/31086609426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/026671e849c4ec00cbf47314180fcfab/1296263535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.netcorp.hu/data/editorfile/29538655008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd345ad7b304ab8308deeca587071eea/27605538488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega.kz/media/upload/files/7078332788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tivicom.vn/upload/files/8364367813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160747930c4548---razoruvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whscardinals1963.com/clients/9/9e/9e5fab02d16e7113a74bdd4e7828f974/File/16114617831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1954a33d6a3166bb8ab79b25b2e396c0/16969079692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dambi.pl/userfiles/file/komibaperunaridif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hkfew.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gijubunulebebarofajam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79afebef33d909ce28474bae6c8f4778/rosusuketigofexekido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaupa.cz/userfiles/file/nukutopolax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://razaviota.ir/basefile/razaviotair/files/goxisafilodope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/62603692555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chupanhnoithat.vn/upload/files/29938886137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb438d771b---juxivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1996c0756c8c28ec951011daa503311/75676039193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=eclipse+neon+ide+for+java+developers+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000da84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA84 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f29b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF29B 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 8773f7255eb5eb83e54e1a4858ca51939552e4ba2e76a7873bf1e88e33216c26
font_02_sfnt_off00010b82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B82 17540 bytes
SHA-256: edc96942a095794c7e1f4c8fc150a382b3f3a813e782f084d5fd38d9c544e9dc