Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0d333d006592c2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 05:09:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 19f2422c648ecc3ca07e4dc9254bd356 SHA-1: e7573b907f94113c47c43effee932f17abcb5334 SHA-256: b0d333d006592c2c6cae6cf838132d98dbde614afe791c4ac6000dd00aaad47e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics point towards an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9866

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 http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160963d4d58d31---51866984036.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dt5ovnm1stdkd433d1g63bhuo2/90843743163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whuntex.ru/userfiles/file/24003019137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d082c2c15d---xigavenakifozekavuxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee0ae8b5bae---nasino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifesmart.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/veziwasedope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76dfe09ef484e9997097675270a6aa5b/miwajos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avision-italia.com/userfiles/files/87084576183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gz-theoutfit.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210614025722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609de5dac97e5---beraromoserapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba291425b42---rirani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triptoboloyfoundation.org/editorsfiles/files/61516315499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b94206d430---46549312827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzeiger.com/userfiles/file/mizesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m7af2kstofirh8dv8bhko5sjbb/64790822744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab35a71cf8c---55051363452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skywaytravelandholidays.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92243925163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084722bd42ab---buketiwufizezipigubonago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mut-zur-veraenderung-hambuch.de/userfiles/file/gofamulaxoxel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thecuriosityshot.com/18048404824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kkc1.org/htdocs/cljr/data/files/fagotoxipegolajaluvezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0e31e0746d---vetetadeledaxidedapaved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e9ccf282ef---gasipavogedewuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=quran+ka+urdu+tarjuma+pdfPDF 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d50b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD50B 1820 bytes
SHA-256: ef4c56b83544acc0eae329b123dcb13384a4443b8ee25b6b011fcec9f25c534c
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD90 16244 bytes
SHA-256: fddcbe21bdf9fb2753729b4ab5b26d7a3fbb01e3fe51d41ab0725360e25c189d
font_02_sfnt_off0000f37f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF37F 10484 bytes
SHA-256: b9deae6214e277dd5677e1332539fbbe9a9aaede743aa0c0c0249256a68259b2
font_03_sfnt_off00010b5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B5A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_04_sfnt_off0001236c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1236C 24216 bytes
SHA-256: 9f8bd0bc21628a212c0b66eb91258fd3a443dd7a966e64203bf152ccd36bd289