Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0b110778f581f34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-08-20 11:57:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 372b1caa96c1ac56389cf295a5aac347 SHA-1: 0bc8af2d9ca7badba51c137bec2841f21c6dbddb SHA-256: d0b110778f581f3415dcc27c94e8aa6e1331f6fb5ed8296969da81d95d7caae8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5d16ff0b5e---wiworizomulabokapelusex.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ddefa0e2e6---zifudebatenefoxelibaresu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d51b90d3e35---xedivazesutafukifob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/vobazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kliknetezde.cz/admin/obrazky/file/zagurekukeziloriwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lezeckastenakosice.sk/upload/files/94196704115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e5c2b6433---gitebaniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfb7d170040---93327256437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoalavender.net/upload/files/52211630777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fc9e9b9bc4e72492e555fcd1cc4d17a/82698056194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsarvn.com/media/ftp/file/bupomune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d5a799428c433824f1e5bb598a4bc41/6348544981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813e04a6fca---20060090814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e5a6446fe1---24767136729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf952a44d34---puzevenexiwerumumegafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2ejanetaapdkefh7mn0v91opj/kagugadesakeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de2db13b0018a6d4a5f340c76df0f23d/23874930802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bc4cad433f---27166097476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sc14enl8uglcccen662b4cq8pu/24864312139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/409abcf297bb0b9d3dd208d89ad76b1b/93478002761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydangson.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/kodupisiwejabobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nabsangram.com/userfiles/file/96528725387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbcom.eu/ressource/site-image/files/64497407585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfekttorun.pl/pliki/4522607857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=syllabus+of+bsc+computer+science+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_off0000eff2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFF2 11212 bytes
SHA-256: 3afce871b8ca989df4a04df9e2449e89cc49868d7613eb77f1337ea88c0f572a
font_01_sfnt_off000109f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109F5 16988 bytes
SHA-256: 50749d276dc33b96927b67542b05e2017eb930d7927716995187d164b0b9a93e
font_02_sfnt_off00013680.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13680 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1