Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b023d82891409028…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 13:15:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: c0a9bdc73710f478faebccbc60678d64 SHA-1: 880fd88d508b9707a935cd6ef633bdd93e09476f SHA-256: b023d82891409028f8c44eaa730fa254dc774e5dbc287619f8bb0bc1b8f42a0c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it likely exploits a vulnerability or attempts to trick the user. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the nature of the detection strongly suggest a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9790

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://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fca3999c36---vusuzumaziwakovupabilijux.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c6957a1df2---26934303668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/wedijoviva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ee76256cb---73019349598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d16fe94f18c67252f10923a62d493b79/tijokimogej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ds6p53brlv9i10kv2h12d63jt4/lolilupedosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abfd8962d67---67504129056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87876e8add---dusabegekedigil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://net-mex.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gufusekixiboge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytopics.it/uploads/file/63748582253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8dd3c872e7---6412515199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/loveginidakajuroka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o3n5to23ibmldjt3q5so6ecs64/3034406796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villabrown.it/userfiles/files/ledatulajunomefexokojom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cycling-software.com/files/file/derasitokizexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91df9f3611f82495779b9161f3e286fa/3521398156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajihighfields.in/userfiles/file/34899056295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afdc5898a03---nawerewegosowapidaxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b9919b0f5aa78c70efcee2ec9a19e0c/69054284311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab509a80ab4---97601359623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a2f64b719---gemaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c86ff6a1654---tapujufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c82db5e8437c8f3693717435df17ac7/38328269856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcb65fc3fcd---lagosozonajafow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citra.cl/userfiles/file/zakaxasoxebobomaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baugeraeteverleih.de/benutzerdateien/pebukotulakidudawibufuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=pointless+board+game+instructions+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_off000132c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132C2 17204 bytes
SHA-256: b289b9c80f9a897d09753fc3e7d5d606df15fa22931fd2abcc1297adcc89d718
font_01_sfnt_off00015f92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15F92 11204 bytes
SHA-256: ae4d892651c89767b8f25735df90161a06656e7b6fc9ff8438a5e0c219733b63
font_02_sfnt_off00017963.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17963 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1