Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b054257f6ace9aa4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 22:52:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a1903af20887b9b7d86f8af989bf61fc SHA-1: 6f517a40620f5923689969217392828e8069ee1c SHA-256: b054257f6ace9aa4c220ce89d83c8d0d05e6979294b3430b40df0cfeb413b1d6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host and distribute links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k7q80iishv3askos5tt9815tt6/79315175545.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dc323c644f---soxepulumegagiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quiltingacademy.info/fckeditor/userfiles/file/zoxebipun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiroyoung.com/data/files/25491221798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bekkercoon.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35838841312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peterpan1996.it/userfiles/files/kaxoziwujigosuropada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075de9c2b652---1811121304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiskreunion.com/clients/b/b4/b417c2091670ce0b0d78f4b231aea02c/File/78848898228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/31703569695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34c8c20f57b920590c11bce0dea857ea/55969558941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centromp.it/userfiles/files/pitiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077336d4a3b8---tefuzomifisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/55857429886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cabini.it/userfiles/files/91462004280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoshitorionline.com/uploads/files/gupajobiziwifodidevuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.verneteco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pudukifebunemiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161206eb0002ab---juvasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/255ad91b4068417dc39da79cd18cf4c1/35810280518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b06d4719672---1058087837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9jamail.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/userfiles/file/1359686515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/62817228396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a36321fce30e1baf2a5c5178dedecac/9832394299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pescepiana.eu/userfiles/files/gomabopugijapimapugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=tablas+de+conversion+de+volumen+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_off0000d8f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8F6 18600 bytes
SHA-256: 8d90795825be677d19e4aac39c51a83d343f172fc21471ddae3ce4614718579a
font_01_sfnt_off00010861.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10861 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012078.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12078 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 35abc249901a7519372f4b366f69c73b96d5044c4f3b1217f043aa9dd35f2f19