Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b09d687c357e4753…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 18:10:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 23a0011b689f1eb61049c2d895b6f416 SHA-1: b1fc0eab06fcd3752fcc3d88b030d1e2a8919e15 SHA-256: b09d687c357e475356f758b603888d173188a6ee63d76581edb7544990054b12
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, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack pattern involves luring users through a deceptive document to external, compromised resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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://halongbaycruises.org/upload/files/38241474355.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bakwanudang.com/contents/files/ripubajevorasufaduxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa701f7fa32---lawom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b28f6651538---xinatipoleripagalenotepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bdc67801ca---zesuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f007fa06aed78ee3149f70fbe19c8224/xelirujig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wulf-sanitaer.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vblrjh5v7p125r1t42shft9jcg/nasevuxaxusafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futuralagoparking.eu/userfiles/files/34396737740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atraba-holding.com/userfiles/file/79393973471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felicitareonline.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jajimemijefalasumeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dfc45444f40aec714e2273b9f629b80/14779170402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091c6e7cac50---fuxivizekez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frutapac.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/filetim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmprogetti.it/userfiles/files/jukawoduliwuxotozava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9075856e3---viretidefafesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eigvfdf7ilho3c11hcj9dh6gaq/74645504570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/74416316592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mearesandassociatesllc.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/mebafuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a934f00571f---68839934674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtydizayn.com/userfiles/file/60664845199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2em6rhi1nhnk3svf51tkdso7r/37898720000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787d42927ac---97953998834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klubalfa.org/img/userfiles/file/taguxobibefibedawalolutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johndanton.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zegadedidazovelepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a817613b8f---81244515930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/rebidizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=cancer+de+mama+masculino+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_off00010fb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FB1 19812 bytes
SHA-256: d0b3594648b95cf022e8daef9e3c6ea6ebc4078cf38d1fb0eba4ede03b5d9fcb
font_01_sfnt_off000142b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142B3 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 34f34d046b25a55021eecf908919c2fde061dc8bdbae508cf992113d84132ec2
font_02_sfnt_off00015b93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B93 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1