Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b0d530dc032de33…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 23:31:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 498525dc91f7de30c3415c8f17544ca0 SHA-1: 76bb79ec1e0949d85dd83344d8d82cdd6eb921c9 SHA-256: 1b0d530dc032de33b8a2d697c115d7b1bf6fa5203eff88772c700dd4b2afa744
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters indicate a potential SEO poisoning or spamming campaign.

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://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c378809444d---relezerorujugake.pdf
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e636f3574b3fb29e644f9f7f58710a5/netinabudajepobekonizipi.pdf
    • http://clarksville.net/wysiwygfiles/file/44907694448.pdf
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ccd0685b0896359b3eb95d72d4fc5ce/fuzedixaxapixafavomoxexus.pdf
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a151b3690c0---14068279258.pdf
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3439ed1b1fd714b3165f1ae81fd723ae/81403503363.pdf
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856a5fe0a34---19478030623.pdf
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5796998a6---dezidinutaledun.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ec67e66749---76156139076.pdf
    • https://angelsstaff.com/uploads/file/84599339015.pdf
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/414172967a81c8ecc128c2fb1a93f514/fugewas.pdf
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1a00f7c0711ef04967e0d28a760c4e9/96235100092.pdf
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b645dea5b---53185424530.pdf
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91vev1nqs71tkq5l6aioqod3i7/9629165252.pdf
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n2ojbq7ov02tgau18hqb414hn0/sepulorogitofukatowuwu.pdf
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/she7fohkui2bctcm0rotqupap4/14094040033.pdf
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/mitamusafov.pdf
    • http://asirakademi.com/resimler/files/58354871835.pdf
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bab3f3ac275---1384210992.pdf
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c81f2a4193ea60312c8a2ca83834b82/pimatamotizofifavibano.pdf
    • https://arvikabc.com/images/uploadedimages/file/99407661175.pdf
    • http://keyflounge.nl/userfiles/file/wodatusalep.pdf
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3ba8bfa2cebb83f60bccfb59f28d1ee/13964994618.pdf
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c48f647127aca2d40f50e876e177699/7009884972.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=create+scheduled+task+command+line
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e793.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE793 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffa5.bin
6e16629158f97935ee2f4e2121bc2fe2858f9ca0ff47f4d49817425cdfca300c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFA5 17368 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012d47.bin
fffeb7fac94fa1d49a489403aab6d683fecdee652e4d4119616f2bd727c4c0a8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D47 10860 bytes