Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1b3b258f755d488…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-08-08 23:45:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: aa137c124e05f36d2f9648caa878b24d SHA-1: 86d9c8a2f681c7d437836233b586659f068fe0c7 SHA-256: a1b3b258f755d4881b0844968805c46234dea06834788bda046977e654542e94
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a05c3bc6fd8---42887052375.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b247014a72---72570841496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beastyenergy.com/userfiles/file/72836576692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://herfection.tw/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210703031414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluetact.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/85517038113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc2e31233c1---98428598700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brukbet.com/user_images/file/83661494056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sshs61.com/clients/6/60/60e739d5a8cf4a6710e4f064fd99417d/File/fibomawegum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3ae243999fdef1f6ac515dacc676b3a/rozurawupujipigiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb12aa21e97---wudaruwuzefokokifogebefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4ed1ce96a---31227672230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariondhuique-mayer.com/data/file/70171341495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happinessgown.com/upload/users/files/piturubixade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f317f0a0c33---84861111081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ac0cca2649cd73333216527486eb6f0/rimomapiketujemik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cad2931fab4---70363766492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f969579fb73---zewomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodchambergolf.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zatoreresid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8c294a39bd---furulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorinaldibedin.eu/userfiles/files/nowedunoxovozotuvak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c285625da0ffeaec955c3c59c5fa90e/55413525936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wugejot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5c4ab912e1---mabubotore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0e878a887f67550975ee45120de8f8e/bemifuzejonetegevifobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=mapa+del+metro+cdmx+pdf+2019PDF 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_off0000f420.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF420 10972 bytes
SHA-256: bd40e8b86dd941263e52c1f740dea5c9c065f94bad781a4c05361b69a5ec91f8
font_01_sfnt_off00010db3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DB3 18028 bytes
SHA-256: 348cdcdd87ec53dbc1d861399421984478298329363dd84e764c5e35808f4314
font_02_sfnt_off00013b9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B9C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1