Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0fc14cadbc06f45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 23:27:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 82581809327f67db617c07d2d8384d70 SHA-1: 653688d85a6635f0268d5d88aa92346fd9c1d0f9 SHA-256: b0fc14cadbc06f45859d1a95f196ab721ff0d953e958a494f1857de8ee463914
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly suggest an attempt to lure users to external, potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://bestapp4u.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file/3818292762.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/zagezudelelonexen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h2cff8iocji6u4cotl0lsqqi7v/9870235632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unioncentralreunion.com/clients/3/3a/3acd25563584ef55397927d4124196c4/File/nuxoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vwtint.com/userData/board/file/44491086245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f43e3b7c18---88616869141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quaint-house.com/karovobewexadavorijokulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szallas-karpatalja.net/upload/xulazopurup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32bd0bdba10d83096eaba117853d220e/kovuzoxizejexoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamtimeshare.com/userfiles/file/vefomibejopivixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auswallendorf.de/userfiles/file/40156920411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundationkuzmanov.com/files/15519700994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolaodong.com/userfiles/file/xotaluxinubadajubibome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah1.com/contents//files/rujovewazuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ef621cd6a331bf9906a4e9169318c24/fipar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/69232258893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airxps.com/userfiles/files/jewakokoguvis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dungcubepgiangtrinh.com/webroot/img/files/41012168699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mim2010.ru/userfiles/file/besipasof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7op93kfuprtvfbu296dlnerh8e/musil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanders-scottfamily.com/clients/26926/File/50348133947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prestinireedcorp.com/userfiles/files/kujimoxifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fapannimario.it/userfiles/files/xizezepoxoreb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bepxuyenviet.com/upload/files/85571319141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf773eeb9f7---nasebedowemopalixililaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607376c51c858---94404216788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=numeral+classifica%C3%A7%C3%A3o+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e44a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE44A 21136 bytes
SHA-256: a972fda9b5d4a3ed56b325f57e250f6784329fa5f0187e4a99b95accdae4b84e
font_01_sfnt_off00011967.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11967 11120 bytes
SHA-256: ed5b080e3dd905e1c61c925353be73247717d49f3637c2b742f6c0e95d1f120e
font_02_sfnt_off00013295.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13295 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1