Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0b5d5c897317361…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-07-27 07:29:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 8b0e56ce9a86f6b9bbdc8dd674b5217e SHA-1: 0394fc26e48d9b0ed126a52a4417b2e3f508047b SHA-256: c0b5d5c897317361e3dc87a0227e5bfae428e8c7d749f88da3a8d6ca17fe8bb7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, are part of a larger pattern of suspicious link distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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 https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ced3a38f7a---59801997225.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sieuthimayphat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40731455821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ccb015c7b---rozoxosakalobovisala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e820b518854---83836958697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szekszardportal.hu/userfiles/file/lavijizapufevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dd23229092---gugonog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42c1dhzaq5aeb.com/userfiles/files/koxivudewatidipidoxona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e3a71f1e08---pezuxuvajozigurekufagofuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulfcans.com/home/madarmun/public_html/gulfcans/images/bulk_images/files/35990416584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087df1163f1b---rezatax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b08c40134f8---31116573924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weddingdiy.cc/uploadfiles/files/20210605_023249_7948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphaconsultinggroup.us/vpw/images/file/43251096470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e516bab9a6---tagiladojalakeketovawageb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d88806930bd3a369eb3bfd89dd162ae5/46764239499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuccifamilyonline.com/clients/b/b5/b5aed9f4ae8fd2b300021b46b426cae6/File/61935875894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yao-cheng.com/uploadfiles/20210627194525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbiotech.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/liwelonufiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b52da97b26---68086852085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://locktactyuma.com/userfiles/file/wudod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/er26rq5u19dfbptptgqgvg0ceh/59701262033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midlandhigh65.com/clients/6/68/682e31fde28f8c6bff7ebba57332ef5f/File/derezilirifarapokira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bb456e7204e2ee998a77c9f486c3541/60960583145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umrllc.com/userfiles/files/32430308872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kargiskola.ge/myadmin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94630415992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8ea05bab6---88056441856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=solving+quadratic+equations+worksheet+algebra+1PDF 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_off0000f32d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF32D 17372 bytes
SHA-256: 557ad79a96c5fece4f33d237bd7d57897d3c4f88317befdcc6ffe7da9400c70a
font_01_sfnt_off000120af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000138c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138C6 11404 bytes
SHA-256: bdd36d5299e18b4d3a0cf6b79829e83d0a2dcc97efef23550e06736873e20f9d