Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0ed38d19ce1fa9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 22:22:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 397db9d63e1d4050548f3a926a76c9fe SHA-1: be12f84f340b572d6c2cebccdd5eca6ae8674d91 SHA-256: b0ed38d19ce1fa9b2844438faa7829024b9b012d1cbaafeb5dd5f436980cc4b9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to PDFs hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links are key indicators of this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=one+way+or+another+lyrics PDF link annotation
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q5f220vq9p459hcd5b2g558mt9/mebikipazinitogupane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delvalle68.com/clients/54584/File/zawipitojejigupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/99892313114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc71f58f993---77734281614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/413dc48b077c9fbb0a50561383fede9a/burin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanmarinreunion.com/clients/c/c0/c0747301521b2fcd71a0106c9132c7e7/File/watujirekimanige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119e1c71c90d---belukasov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/igi0gbkk3c3uip27cqsbls9un1/novizupitujituk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a134f7270a249161e22a9c7a36b8c4e4/75714592544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccf7dffd5b8c92fada94128707a9ac8d/85943496307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d3bf18789---molonagurefolixalewexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://norilskgu.ru/userfiles/file/47179144927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rc-modeller.se/images/file///79817707844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607841d494f11---32477028866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lorichphoto.com/pictures/file/pazadejiwixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8aa7c82c3---kudoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.smartfutureexpo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86018963666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grdr.org/paidel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xinumoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edmaker.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/421bb9fa0f7e521f31abb4353aa0dc8d/69294281462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdf67f74407---xuwunotiguliravene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0nk25j9hnukbj7ba3g2crrmof2/zediwariwesitexekok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lienlacanien.com/img_pages/file/girasasibegurisal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhakhoaanphuoc.vn/uploads/files/teguvezok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.org/userfiles/file/jamerarivazapivuxoviwemit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyderabadibiryanicorner.com/admin/images/file/32019305959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d0f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0F2 17412 bytes
SHA-256: e055dcdeffb58ed2ad779ed1ce1d956102068bf671ad75b04ea0cc8efd6906c8
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE0B 10552 bytes
SHA-256: b05f69da2a385ff55a77a82d14cbc7de30829c55a1019bed3b036e7d8258f089
font_02_sfnt_off00011624.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11624 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1