Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1034a81c3f28f02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-08-07 01:05:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7698142e0d5aaabfa85a6b69d85d31f0 SHA-1: aa531a14b97339f3b441bf0d5274610a8c7ab0e5 SHA-256: b1034a81c3f28f0212da8975176a7277527d4580e5b25c588bd7c2098e95edd7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://biocoils.com/img/file/juxaduzot.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b43f78083b0---69192646956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6da9b52223290087dfcfcd6fa8f71584/16620854502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diversecityuk.com/userfiles/file/belalow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64q4snmrqpqp9kk7csd0608s13/4004549657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simondaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51029041731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://r2doodles.com/clients/4/4a/4a4ed909dcef54c1e3ec6a0ce1d29f2d/File/38537654800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingmontagna.com/userfiles/files/jiziredoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e239bae2d---8585442193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canoto.us/Images_upload/files/judizuxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ca556aaac0162ffcb1b69bb11ff958c/68569543062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bighost.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/pidet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083323fb6505---81356911946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1g4pam548s49mijne6of1j82c7/vanulofolomesuroputuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europawindow.com/app/webroot/img/main_content/files/zafejatapekamagebumero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e66366a5009---zoxinujezutito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkojicin.cz/userfiles/file/62676467499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modernplating.com/userfiles/file/73646484994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mqkqhjddo4lteula9e4mpht99b/23559545794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9bd71c6dff---kiliwimokezojud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18e8958dd8e4af3c8d270d4aaeb5172b/deligamidebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d47498bfbb---80107019816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=manuale+xiaomi+m365+pro+2+remove+speed+limitPDF 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_off0000f1c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1C4 17044 bytes
SHA-256: 60b0bb7b365fc7763cf91008d9f6f77fe8c0f6a70327087b872bb078a352ed2f
font_01_sfnt_off00011e3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E3C 11408 bytes
SHA-256: 50f0370010f557c5eabad555fb9464b629f9ea0559225fd8f902c2390b6e734a
font_02_sfnt_off00013944.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13944 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1