Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0e301472bd6ca74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-16 02:37:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fd122dd24667e460dd4b19669bbcdd5d SHA-1: 29f40d98ccff933c76c12cc58d944bca8be5b715 SHA-256: b0e301472bd6ca747fbbe8e358b742d0ce2188670c8e5e7d6cdd85b0e9dcbc98
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=visible+light+spectrum+wavelengths
    • http://terezmisszio.eu/files/file/64501141218.pdf
    • https://nobelboya.com/userfiles/file/21963249722.pdf
    • http://asupuro.com/upload/save_image/files/wizopem.pdf
    • http://kargo-box.com/uploads/files/76491703193.pdf
    • http://balbu.hu/uploads/news/file/42082443708.pdf
    • http://cbcom.fr/ressource/site-image/files/ligunapub.pdf
    • http://notar-frings.de/userfiles/file/94446037376.pdf
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8e89b18ec3f6edcb9a5b00ac2e38403/46293618358.pdf
    • http://solyaris.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32731094862.pdf
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614171263988f---pobipogekob.pdf
    • https://www.tvmreza.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zitasexubenupaxu.pdf
    • http://szentdorottyapatika.hu/files/fupebefutomep.pdf
    • http://dailitara.lt/bites/uploads/file/wegebofopujudine.pdf
    • http://longbeach.ilovepokebar.com/uploads/files/80939360695.pdf
    • http://pinturasoltra.com/images/slider/files/7913085993.pdf
    • http://ros-grad.ru/fck_editor_files/files/77681279525.pdf
    • https://fratellifurloni.it/file/16360272992.pdf
    • https://svezadjecu.me/userfiles/file/wuwebopofok.pdf
    • https://praktijkbinnenstad.nl/file/22933573009.pdf
    • http://dentalclinicbangalore.com/uploads/67105155963.pdf
    • https://vrrc.heart.net.tw/ckfinder/ckfiles/files/valedugasifoladadefewe.pdf
    • http://xn--54-dlcdkamdj4btild5b.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xubalukuzu.pdf
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137c349ef704---kivuwegemikujubevo.pdf
    • http://hamyarsanatco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96922891819.pdf
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ef813b9f0bed3787f5da2929e600b0f/xiluli.pdf
    • http://tnshoppingbag.com/upfiles/file/suwakimizix.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_off0000dffd.bin
176ffe68abec2b56bd06caeb8e6f15144d1ed43b3537a730dbc2040d1f2a4f78
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFFD 11064 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f96c.bin
598ccd50463856087de6bfa7869c6c6d42144bcc582149fd1c2dfdfdb1601595
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF96C 19780 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012d59.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D59 16792 bytes