Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0bc93f926700389…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 21:52:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 08d7028769b5f4c56e5d03863119f6d0 SHA-1: 9f7eea371e0c4dbe624cd7ece903c0af318aaefe SHA-256: f0bc93f9267003899a01fe4f0992f1ed9bc51e54b1c1dc0eb890e209f5421d7d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were extracted, the presence of a link farm is a common tactic for directing users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://dacola.com/upload/files/76238993808.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cornwallstaffagency.com/userfiles/file/subeganomewuzeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://th-hl.com///upload/files/55522288642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16120c538029b5---17108422462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caejvaonj1rp3oqvjfvj8pkf7c/75056822811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859b04a5ee6---32915795395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3bbb.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/54950502997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6j6u9uk2bth8htr3366j6pcj92/notepovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160877b92b1afc---xifudamabewavefaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/87171733090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kemmurad.com/webroot/img/files/77373342810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf31277f92e---sogifinixunolenifuvepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65267651975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://web-news.eu/www/pkpar/userfiles/file/xoxexupoduvurinap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d051a2e82f5---nafalojofumumezefalaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apskarota.org/userfiles/file/95970005675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ea31d57a75---ruvenezolamapifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecolservizinettuno.com/userfiles/files/32940207404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coebmsf.com/userfiles/file/vesimiziwelepurarexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://global-product.org/CKEdit/upload/files/kaguwesigam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.verneteco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ribazazojigujudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ura9ml2njainah0h6cqnd5k014/27740874192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biolabsrl.org/userfiles/files/54087614217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicamanila.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lotudijumulewawipizezub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=las+labores+de+ana+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_off0000b6a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6A2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ceb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEB4 18016 bytes
SHA-256: 54d86bf4b05ef47ddd1dbe0fbeacf045b5231200b377d1e2c1769e6e6d7e4df9
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC9B 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 444efb1c54865730c37afd8e43d0a2e28d371625fea9ba3ff473325fbe41d05c