Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b07fd308dd56bad1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-07-21 21:34:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 1a66fbe3b0cd6e1c6fa99a9ad8d2f24e SHA-1: 2489981148a00b304b2d3579bde58d44d02f2be0 SHA-256: b07fd308dd56bad1dcaae7db63b1403126a47c8323cf8d1b0bfaa07da036743f
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. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or phish for information. The presence of multiple PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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 http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608651bac50de---fajawemeweserusepuw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84f4a46dc0d293f340991da756c48861/30878501916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0acaea642f---54173793514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/sewubunovigizewon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2a4d182153c78c176108e257bf17bbd/lixamujetogorikobovori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082584e63b2c---devuvasurojel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84d4ed97d918e914757bd9c89ba1600f/nidawazeteluwolofazesomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0966720c65---gametalotor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agama-rc.com/upload/files/86656701420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/jasisonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1244b0673b4fd6dd7ebfc124dccbcd5/tozutabal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suamayin.biz/userfiles/file/46253921655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machinegroup.ru/img/outer/files/vafopinokeluzow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1551f8fac38cdaa4f0951aaa8f6f1340/97609239635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mclandpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/61234747022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85969afc31e93af50403add29b202139/7358523592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dharmapremipariwar.org/userfiles/file/55965479626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b362a2aeef9ae11d3643f2184d24deca/zinapujilabaxilub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanamihic.com//files/29798393929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bf5e2688f1ff4da357885fcfe722279/42967737512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowator-zpu.pl/userfiles/file/52989451212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=kb+more+than+mbPDF 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_off0000f3a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3A3 10200 bytes
SHA-256: a18f0fb47393a4be6d15055e48229b37775b6da9d45e47c83892556a36a9a243
font_01_sfnt_off00010a4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A4B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001225d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1225D 18740 bytes
SHA-256: f571e537735653c2ceb6e47a077f5b216e2bb7ff7604db5614df7f4591d9bb01