Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0604b9506caac39…

MALICIOUS

PDF

115.2 KB Created: 2021-08-09 22:46:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8f84ad054f7942eeb6cec680c085e209 SHA-1: ecf616ad52c8e7e1b49d15a871dca9edf71e8608 SHA-256: b0604b9506caac39462b4c27d6f9b3a1ee8cbfc791c4558da58f45d5076d2a03
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm on disposable hosting, designed to direct users to external sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

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 http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dcfbc9e35f---lewirusekavatelup.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161064588d678d---42996004049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/xilukelemuvajesemopub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birzebbugastpetersfc.com/files/file/tijipodusimibatotosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a32b376d4b1---kananixunonofaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a82f2a040d---nadidopalise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salvatoredivilio.it/userfiles/file/juperewuzunofepurez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f396ecdbe---fanenepokorejum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://statewideroadservices.com/clients/879378/File/45706559701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9d0b102a6wc3y4a.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210630063624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mzr-avocats.com/buddha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zovekifarasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coil.hk/upload/files/46600096114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viral-list-machine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/lataboxaxavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3cc8c1801d5df0b5c6355cae576f454/46547020151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fszhenjia.com/upfolder/e/files/20210607183053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6e60e8b0107f67d48404489693146b1/gufawodexepexuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d32pggfddcj3ag2lled71f6un/5762795935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienlanhlongan.com/upload/files/43931658229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l968epeidlmq63a1hshs36h8g5/jejukuporiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiabiru.com/contents//files/dudebusozowotevejuwudez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamlaproject.com/userData/board/file/dudimuvokanaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cafeinca.com/img/public/contenido/file/fumatovibawalikiguwog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tc-antey.ru/uploads/files/22321109748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62cc3cdf80fde9c2f73534ad2e58d2c4/gobexenukov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=grandma+got+run+over+by+a+reindeer+movie+castPDF 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_off00015ea9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15EA9 11124 bytes
SHA-256: c00e33ae9ccdd969fb84ace2d034ed3b31a41e125dc9862a7243026e38ba6e8d
font_01_sfnt_off00017880.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17880 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00019092.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19092 17176 bytes
SHA-256: f807b37084feb995e8648d3d2bca8ac55d78bf8dcf9b7c3ed6be91f33d8758f5