Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b6380aa0afc83c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-21 19:30:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 367ba0a8534d8f27ffbef316707ff3a2 SHA-1: 13b603ae2d1b7bd34d9086e16dac8cbf8ff5154a SHA-256: 1b6380aa0afc83c8f8c9033e2ba9c4b4d5a1eafed0005e4ba3e2f605286a3909
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier and ClamAV both strongly indicate maliciousness, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for malicious content or phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a malicious document intended to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c14e7fba9fe1415158ff27b42d542ee/18338486502.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/27340780339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aps-mes.com/files/file/nerijaxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609931853aefe---34892566203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gqbcailv8lku34f7nsct42h5n7/20335199849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/063830e2d5b071cc33062fcf56ad8f12/sibaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13p9mm8pu5r6944k5bpjjgjta5/tawojalavenakonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a53760c3e7---depamebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160777f337ed43---90534220442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8971a614a---zetotab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://louvre.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/16039102260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o8m7b91sc16kej2p1fjncmb1mf/nabatijusalorabafiseve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bcbc3399.com/upload/files/laxibabekupalanukasiwok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpotplace.com/uploads/files/26388923088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxlinder.com/admin/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21653253835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3tlj3bs3d0dift0fceoi561fli/togodiwijaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160884dc36da6e---mixexuzopapigarexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/bisojosajuwupobamewuwex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f508cf8e254c97b2ab735d09be549c5/zavobologesusedap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/zumunuxubobutav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mysistermyfriendministries.org/clients/85776/File/65238050132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skyline1968.com/clients/74864/File/78438961931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607361a362d91---88449099448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ee9ed5ec792ef6ef91cda0771c6c66f/82773399672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/562eea6108d9ea60c854e7ef10c4493a/40980128543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=tamil+book+for+class+7+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_off0000ed0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED0B 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 5f45a0814b31601917e9d0e4d978af440282ea9f57ae4337ff7a7b1e1363e7e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001055b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1055B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D6D 17236 bytes
SHA-256: 3e98ef4268bc4ddec9d35df4fa961b757838240cfe7036f1bcdf9c80621c2894