Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0484257db3d9ede…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-06-29 06:57:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0f7cf8f17912c56961f5bce372984223 SHA-1: d02e22fe7255cdcc96555140d60aa481b99ea5ea SHA-256: b0484257db3d9ede689d4d3c21dc41a4a35491baf518ca9dd01d5d6a2d8a1b26
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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 https://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=right+weight+according+to+height
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5893c32fc5e995336d01175af9676bc7/74335949612.pdf
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gp006hhc0p3udr9v0l3lvvpos6/63462655998.pdf
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a919fa64e80ddc4e2d6db8de4c44b346/jaxatemeteku.pdf
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/39958041054.pdf
    • https://vietnaminsight.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/noruzoxasubufaberame.pdf
    • http://dgjst.com/upfile/file/46733428430.pdf
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/wegikelaxetixaxojak.pdf
    • https://investmentskillsgroup.com/images/userfiles/file/rasutofedibolesafa.pdf
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d3f464f11c---goramerapivuxudolifunuk.pdf
    • http://luxe-pools.fr/i/File/53838275388.pdf
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b014abdd316f88701b311faed4bffd9/xapamijuvajosoponogezuku.pdf
    • http://rgn2u.com/userfiles/files/68518769459.pdf
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a60120eb4a8da4ab66bbb04363ab72d/vixuxuga.pdf
    • https://digireg.nz/upload/pikolutomenipisojulavos.pdf
    • https://turismopontevedra.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sorezon.pdf
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3809a4d77757967ccad5882fa9a1853/penadilokafafudogat.pdf
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53d996fe746d2fb7e593796b035188a2/wovem.pdf
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848724ae4f9---zoparutobefixari.pdf
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a72ae1ccc42---49187336902.pdf
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/pojefevifajivimubesaliz.pdf
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b96791fd2c---xopugarik.pdf
    • http://familiegravesen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pogax.pdf
    • https://securityguardsupply.org/php/uploads/file/18995422640.pdf
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ea5a6ac070---takuzavibedunezukit.pdf
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17182dcff4851fdd3457c707c82174e5/60581671484.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000105d2.bin
58a4fe5bbc8cb583d3f5fe9f9b138b65a1ab1a06c06583140209083832bf2f56
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105D2 17244 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000132aa.bin
3e2110d972b8f787ce7b0417b4b080a8eb042d1e468b37ef1fb695a574721fa4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132AA 10564 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014a91.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A91 16792 bytes