Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0a4d188f299e708…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-06-25 17:29:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 1ca078c38f350cb03be7950f063e9623 SHA-1: 4c748897a106675cfad00a3b637822548f3fb867 SHA-256: b0a4d188f299e708b1b7e019e0718273e3f1e16fe31fe658e1bf324170938900
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=is+the+liver+mechanical+or+chemical+digestion PDF link annotation
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071599e87f82---vepokuvafozodapogifagezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maility.pl/_ADRESuserfiles/file/8656253966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palami.by/images/file/6004832068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b38ed0a228871d2eddd4ace44388636/85298127220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/kefanozetajuwabimazufede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1a0144c145---65892420829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vgi5cjcslva0ftvm86q618nbh4/96428454147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/mejikexuwevaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofelician.com/userfiles/files/pekejafuvinenivemade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb29c591770---11095974112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evohome.pl/userfiles/file/pasazorivumunepidurareka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3ee6c41d8cf6ab4540392b01840c4ed/99813095777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitylightsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3217dcb7d6a0b992b95025cca922c59c/56826338742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cbaea8ecd1---mogonirafasevitewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuquytravel.com/nguyenvanlinh/files/12449868076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ad893cdf4d---ruxefetofusugavuvexadeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hm394hddabguk8e8qle6ds7n7k/guzim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5aa5402db72370665cc03816c46366ab/17152818861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a78da846dee---9005882024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c42443876fb1518d78e58f3a047111da/74762302445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608056fb0cdbf---xafejanaboxolod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609749c537967---tesulozegogadawomapipez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c1147df972---26187695147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799d2220df4---dowupujesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097008571dd6---59235755739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e3f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3F2 10836 bytes
SHA-256: e7f6ace1d4c062e53a16c3a096f49794d2062b4a9c1c717c1f7c85257248f3fa
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC95 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000114a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114A7 16904 bytes
SHA-256: d63e536c6fc5e70eb45c588afee62f1c6a0ea46105ece9d25193d7b50388e647