Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b100c5c6e859993f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.3 KB Created: 2021-07-02 11:46:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 4b940b9f6c4273af4f4d3f2f29f703d7 SHA-1: 17f90732e2213adb9c6a157b515877fc7085cd02 SHA-256: b100c5c6e859993f88ce453f626cdca7b25f480f90a095dd11c66ff204a707db
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, indicated by numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to distribute malware or conduct phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e57e6618677c892dc25aa489febef93f/kenejodani.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e519ac21f52f7831302d47347d9746c/80415047708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6gh8h7iq6ql1mtv1mi4s1kob7b/15097350665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytbozhuo.com/upload/file/261401349433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac408320c4a49309e55d40b55bbd977b/pejon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c968e20e001b30740aa6bc85a3bc6cec/filizezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bb1ce7f70c---tonitasoxibuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ppa9jkshaqerptkhscbd5ppt93/74073004927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iphonerepairservice.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/rapukuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/44860571166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a302b0edc58fb5cce16baa2129afa9a0/siludadokogug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pjkconstruction.ca/images/file/fikugeboket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607005c48a8e5---zonanavefufuvazavamumutep.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ac69267282---4855305825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081793064fe7---13375760442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2v2b2tno5kbgqjnnoebd1pe905/lilabudavomazawes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4a1b618bca54cfdedc36d24ba27f250/76090632714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ddfe8b7f5c---jineduxakakuzudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=text+for+boyfriend+to+wake+up+toPDF 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_off00010e8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E8D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001269f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1269F 17320 bytes
SHA-256: 356a4b6b5955de701402d3602485836b64b9a1d88a00f054a67963832d41ed3c
font_02_sfnt_off00015328.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15328 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 6d1a02447e8ad5db07b4d4764ac6111ee97b164435d3367176a7a536989fa1c5