Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b076559734a8a3c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:03:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 86e704629afba0d5b293a5053536154d SHA-1: c7b9b4feb71746b3910fde31a8ec0ad4af16500c SHA-256: b076559734a8a3c9cd61748749e4906cb3a4f384cc3c6737239745335b0a8ba0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal that the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised CMS upload locations and disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9897

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://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161317f09ea77f---37626000704.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ed4da162306ca84e2a2f6892362d957/bovutapodegupiwupefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4010c11add3b3d505da34717d8b8fb1f/37111170658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villalapinetafavignana.it/userfiles/files/91290027258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c565f664e44---litapetunigugezuzusabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff6bca16c4---jipisofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fbchitchcock.org/clients/8/8b/8bdff38a390027835eb24981312b950c/File/vimipisosomalerixug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shian-jin.com/UserFiles/files/20003921351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc27147931---17370570594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0099832b935d570b923bbd68f99eed50/77007703998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1akwe.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/luvuxudefive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jordanadams.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94703724244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607437d27cc3e---22939588181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xingyeknitting.com/userfiles/files/31380372208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viboot.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/witabozakuzakoriraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parcfamilyreunion.com/clients/b/b3/b3ae52aef0329bb57e848b27182677c8/File/61973125896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/43441577504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/narinir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e68ed0edb98ef02c050edd991ec1ec1b/rexiteridap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caerulumpharma.com/upload/files/wukogubanowak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50cdafa6dc3b00cd46ee03234c25456d/jugezebajukagefitaxovor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birnagarcollege.in/userfiles/file/fujumenukafojeporora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pierrelemagicien.com/userfiles/file/31243372299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd7ced0f9f6---mubulepodesojefam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timebank.ru/sites/default/files/photos/pagefile/gaxonowopebowuxotoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electrabicycles.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16203617351011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee0d97c9c0f---tikevimusapifiged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=hangman+word+game+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_off00010d1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D1C 16752 bytes
SHA-256: 33941d88ee6025e090a2bde873afab80d0b20f9fdcc5e1c83940b9783fc0b360
font_01_sfnt_off00013891.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13891 10516 bytes
SHA-256: 69d50e1bd736381dd6fa5c25e84ca190e3166c405cb0607d3619400d9a9b12ad
font_02_sfnt_off0001503c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1503C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1