Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b348fb38be6098bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-06-21 08:30:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 14802a77fab89348551064b38de3e70c SHA-1: bcb4616b17e84f80ced5d2089c163aba78c7cf11 SHA-256: b348fb38be6098bf52411115f7436f2036285282e2ad40a36858f933347607b0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, indicated by heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM'. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to 'robux' and 'roblox', suggesting a lure to exploit interest in gaming for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://planbmedia.hufiles/kupisoxibuwazetuwubali.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/sapej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dac6b4a5ce9808c6a0d54a201e0d4615/49445352073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/46719109788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b00c5de1f3---vididiwaduzin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c61b2d39f1d---fuxipoximuxamofuzof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607beab98c5e2---jisozobagoregojafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oam1od2cm1bo3b8631lfbst5dn/14345961243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pui-vital.ro/msg_media/file/dugetupijojapipiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1vpcb0tjjvu4h0nk6o33211d71/9783717378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--54-dlcdkamdj4btild5b.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76925362020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://booklandbooks.com/userfiles/file/47805020043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075aecce4155---pazoxevugepuzodug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985acecd8e6---lexadivevofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a98d55bd48e---jisenojuvijilatavebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe4ecc7d1b---91917357072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02971d7f47387bf67571b7aa7a98a957/nubofurexesezoxobitejadom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=strong+granny+win+robux+for+roblox+platform+mod+apkPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ca06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA06 5752 bytes
SHA-256: eccd052ef189e32071c22415bbae1e39f7837cb415039906a8a15d52615bf526
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD9A 2252 bytes
SHA-256: aeee9b2fd577c594ede074a7e3493832e024aab8d381a7c1d16527c2e435dd06
font_02_sfnt_off0000e7d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7D8 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 41b95a5bed645282ed5d7297f87d09a8f807e2b115e95671eb05f867ba177d5e
font_03_sfnt_off00010d51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D51 16384 bytes
SHA-256: 226a8e4e528c820945b068501793868e9b71e899c703a7ad804f9a2f424011a5