Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0dbd340ebf8f96b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-07-17 02:03:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 4ce749dd0f0bdc2d9e4be8f291787ad1 SHA-1: d5516eb124b6874f499534b9c1536b76b978c27b SHA-256: b0dbd340ebf8f96bf99e90ec010411a0609a74c5ea79dc701af48c60ab686dfa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or phish for credentials. The document body was unreadable, but the heuristics strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to external, potentially harmful, websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://fulepmark.hu/nyebu/fulepmark/userfiles/file/18039296987.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fzsvybbs.at/userfiles/file/fusagabovage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wegofa.com/userfiles/file/dubitewuwegikuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://attlas.center/userfiles/file/vulaser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltssinternational.com/res/wysiwyg/file/15082610877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videoacceso.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c79fa137b2---5353103120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cac2f51a76---45588552971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/418c84942b927077bc7dd66960660a31/kanax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://houstoncoinshow.org/FCKeditor/file/98075341012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97136258397d58972c96ec1a8198e559/12417688308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megashina24.ru/files/files/judoxexerejegetovikabet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b226ce1bd286a7350335b5911d463c94/30800176723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanchariglobal.com/userfiles/file/94021496768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14a8c26d95e7d91d454deae8e9fc84a4/43061064186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trendybiz.in/usersfiles/file/nisomudajapavofiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8fcd257b32---filaxetodaxifopuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7851258f00---fimafigepolowerovupix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davisfolk.net/clients/1/1f/1f1070e31f35868a9a13f38ee7dc887f/File/8349322718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092430dda199---67828112546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e06ca0ca80---darakolinopumavuveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddad45242b6---22453717203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/dalidemefomonogezasit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.biz/files/file/rinudixefid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=places+near+herefordPDF 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_off0000ed91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED91 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000105a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105A3 15864 bytes
SHA-256: 5f1b7a4b861f4edd165c824c1e1b1a1eaf5e645c16a56fea3f887590b119470a
font_02_sfnt_off00012e6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E6F 10384 bytes
SHA-256: af157c443625215f7072b2ee25447a85adc453bb0eae5a737cc2cd2246953816