Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b513de703add558…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.9 KB Created: 2021-07-01 11:51:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: e1bea8b6c32ae036d9d615aaef50b884 SHA-1: 49db9935399553db0feb415157d68a9fa9ebc489 SHA-256: 1b513de703add5584898a73b65b68561ed00c413789b9881d424cbcbdf6556de
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. The primary function appears to be directing users to potentially harmful content through a link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f30178e7f4---3725215136.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jnnycc.org/userfiles/file/46902417873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dansobentre.net/uploads/file/40914123537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a95db5c543e---betesifemosozenesesago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0b1d7930e25e8aa0ba60d77f346a722/rugezipibofujenoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adian.eus/files/galeria/files/vurinakexuvipuwevepodevax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tischlerei-schlusche.de/sites/default/files/file/rovidejepiledoberigilaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vv4h9nav9v01l09nhicjp9ij40/21820117200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072db761649d---52112187044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietthanhstone.com/images/news/file/raludakuzisajodave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/lofarasodifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfb91e05209---61927828870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharadsangam.org/UserFilesTwo/file/getazifinaremevifej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fns3ohfib0tdtl8t23r0a5ttr2/51017925199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9386153d4---47771632706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d65f544292---regugosivikuliwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/lozalojazoserira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanseniors.ca/userfiles/file/kisutidolidalefularotak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topcudental.com/img/userfiles/files/xuwidezizitaziweporaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bdde268224365d0d4f364eeb469bf71/10594486083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac1f4ec12a1---fapabozarugakapen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahamit.net/userfiles/file/zupitusuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cpro.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f483a4c370---28888927231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb9fa633cf7---12719426416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=heartbeat+in+a+minutePDF 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_off000121a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121A1 10168 bytes
SHA-256: 691a030d02314ac6a8d6415fea81153ac7607c41a942b1fa081a2025a46fa096
font_01_sfnt_off00013849.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13849 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001505b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1505B 17904 bytes
SHA-256: b6e2db3245ab1e5582e91ea103e2a457417c6e337f8665f1f05bc9f3af7b1e55