Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a716b0750e84b0ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-08-19 02:20:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d6b7b669058eb623fe26aaf552da531d SHA-1: 5e8465122d86d77a8374757e2b15697063162b3a SHA-256: a716b0750e84b0ff0168fbd86ea16c5fa94632af5777fe3abd819d7e82e0e657
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm. ClamAV and ML classifiers flagged this as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan threat. The primary function appears to be redirecting users to malicious content hosted on external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://srilangkapools.com/contents//files/zubup.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/gutoxipogikelov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://posaonakosovu.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91385003326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michalpavlicek.com/uploaded/file/buxovixoniligilujarowitej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telek-trans.hu/editor_up/14684014432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bf2ff2df97---miwupusoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carlaschroyen.com/content_docs/jobiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imaggu.com/ci/userfiles/files/bilamigunawudilurulas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donghocitizenchinhhang.com/uploads/userfiles/file/zolekefilir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce02281d09e---besurejegijek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--54-dlcdkamdj4btild5b.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pefabusofipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oroblupiscine.it/userfiles/files/bofubozagatuvuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cebffbe7ac2a0a3ba39e051dc31752ab/kebiwopaverovedudarade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ee004d22b---28067833816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8hvls51ktq8rjuj597shqr8esr/86029660099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointsourcegroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5aff3555280cd163d8f926fe867db47/15683520155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fsbulletsandbrass.com/userfiles/files/puxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kqqgqr8uhrvnkoqpl2502aalu8/jakasewekiwawop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd3010904c479a1bd69effe10fcf93c1/powamaxexewezidibir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77778be92336fd478bdd53d5b1b7831a/kibixisifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17e1d47c99c250fd97fa82d97eb84598/70791690058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084bbac46264---namib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=guyton+fizyoloji+13+pdf+indirPDF 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_off0000bbb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBB0 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 593e67f40290ea21754c1edd9feaae4a187dc29a39cf57a27b7c49eb73cd7478
font_01_sfnt_off0000d467.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD467 18460 bytes
SHA-256: f7e052a932d9b75cc319d45413dff4ecae154bd322ed68bc6430197254daf2fc
font_02_sfnt_off00010169.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10169 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1