Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0843f10b0c6d305…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 17:18:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2d77046e70a1aacaee62b8dad1be7540 SHA-1: a902f4340536451e2befe819d40da6ce3a6934df SHA-256: b0843f10b0c6d305f051663fc18ae0405edf9da2cd71e5278aea56630233ccac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.mmalappeenranta.com/tiedostot/files/94514058149.pdf
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4815ce219f66d43f647dc5027fdcedeb/44568760176.pdf
    • http://spadhotel.com/basefile/spadhotelcom/files/rororoma.pdf
    • http://enotecagaribaldi.it/userfiles/files/87928363697.pdf
    • https://henklinders.nl/henklinders/upload/files/nofitibarenipum.pdf
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b8jp4d26sq2htn984np2lo8n2/batekoxikoxinagage.pdf
    • http://fdscience.com/UPFILE/userfiles/files/22216749076.pdf
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0abbf9f246---pirokilosivuxufubijilolol.pdf
    • http://brainbond.ro/userfiles/file/25753345287.pdf
    • http://micronforgacsolo.hu/UserFiles/file/garoxejajimitajabas.pdf
    • https://thehideawayresortpattaya.com/userfiles/files/mixuluxezofokogagoluvu.pdf
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48b163dc247e15d932499244f1eb1730/xilizuki.pdf
    • https://machnhaduong.com/images/uploads/files/48294838056.pdf
    • https://eccdc.org/application/webroot/userfiles/file/175321291.pdf
    • http://parmalab.it/userfiles/files/lidigupixapesisile.pdf
    • http://hengtongrongshang.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210823211338.pdf
    • https://gmt-tw.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/95431874745.pdf
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb21aa73f72---dubezagojoko.pdf
    • https://youkuvpn.com/upload/files/givetowufajolefirenin.pdf
    • http://daiwavn.com/uploads/image/files/sikunubitanejumutu.pdf
    • https://scavilecis.it/userfiles/file/90613707686.pdf
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f16f17f720---82931220093.pdf
    • http://xy-interior.com/uploads/files/202108280423369980.pdf
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e0c4a3b57f---68195955694.pdf
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sb06a3ckt8da997cv0e48s2nh2/8105780827.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=word+problems+on+fractions+for+grade+6+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_off0000d121.bin
64708581d2e78a756491695a35174a511a9fb5c05d2af9fe0a691ae5b7fefc9f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD121 18848 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000101dc.bin
52bb8752629a79a023adb97508b56675fb95cd31d026d198391098027fc34368
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101DC 11264 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011bdf.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BDF 16792 bytes