Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1474bffc758f9e12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 14:19:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 0bb928cc05a3f5a9534e6c92ab659006 SHA-1: bfc7a55f21804534a990fa799070383ffc494cc0 SHA-256: 1474bffc758f9e1262e119711d3573ce1a1ed5b7dcbf0105feb8ece3fa87d3c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host and distribute malicious files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://www.mousumibanerjee.com/fckimages/file/3477409184.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kolasinprevoz.rs/slike/files/9650916521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3dcb707e73---36763494726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seattledesis.com/fckeditor/file/12821034745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktifimmo.lu/userfiles/files/bezizimariritu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa8f9f0c8f---bepukijazuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intproplaw.com/admin/uploads/file/64809707337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcf7755f1d61cc4f10dbc7aa542f62a2/86570482106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0-50.ru/userfiles/file/serulomij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f33be587c6---87504412148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoanggiaphatland.com/uploads/image/files/vuwataxitunanojapobefik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608534980b691---wodarejoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/367023204be2d866a285633f27c31311/duxesivubitofosotorit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thekitchendesignstudio.org/uploads/files/witofifagako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taeguektour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210706_E3100D1BA36EE2D7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elliptical-trainers.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27169363771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7af26bb3aa---gezun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d86260acd171cf1d28d3ae3a3c1e705/8861410254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/187234d92b96d51c16e012ddacc4f263/95609080759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cf5986a331---muxoseweval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullmagicweekend.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xazifebojibenalotodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fd39ef487831153c715df83e1220216/94808880177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/td19nhm52jq05dqd6693mgc1s7/wobidive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=habanera+lyrics+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_off0000b54e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB54E 16112 bytes
SHA-256: 666b097b0fdc1e0a419fcb14b465d93519cee014e8db253e5b23ad64a8ba746b
font_01_sfnt_off0000deab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEAB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f6c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6C2 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 58e577854c4b99209b7afe5254a8f9d039e987bc4edc88cd933db4f9dd9ad08b