Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b103bc3f440d4c99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-07-07 02:59:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f7be72458f96205761c5b55e8fc0d8ac SHA-1: 19e01cfb9c6ffad895b210407712f8d330070742 SHA-256: b103bc3f440d4c994eaff64e9cd6411fb0553a1c7837a5f9ae663700955b92c0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate maliciousness, consistent with a phishing or malware distribution lure. The file's structure and URL patterns suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content hosted on these compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c28d92cfbe0---12234265318.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a41eb687989---wapepibusewig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78d8557fbf7eaad8c06ecf491555f294/vamelusalenaxaparokol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dissanna.com/temp/fckeditor/file/pujaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccffb201b240835d97882595713eca45/gapesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/91208898323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f403d416ed---3153792100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e2482111ee84a6cd46fdb5a3fed6c28/61070404385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/341a84d3c37fde715fff070d68236efa/kejekaxepemiwikotujejepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3odj081gciidtfag41tkqft145/787212781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4c267e25d4---dajifojenov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608476b7ed724---gevivoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160747db742981---35094854354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4aa3ff9f78b187efaa87993aa627a6a9/kisofolusumogep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nvglugijp6gef99i105m3o3a1u/83186555715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/8386307602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6aecb482ac---pebaleloziwapazonitadaxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/24940096532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rockyshairsalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pk00f4svg4m34elqm2bc0ps8ju/rutarutesizevago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dbe9e50d4e---sakovedexagiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dekoblickfang.de/userfiles/file/zifomusat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a5f4bc73e360d89ff223e1781acbf61/megirodezozoxaroxowuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/guxadanibubeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b1b091f8b915155d9a8766a1ae85a42/66911237042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=short+simple+quotesPDF 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_off0000f2ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010acc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ACC 16832 bytes
SHA-256: 9b143040206478b326efd8ba4c78625df812539fd1324ed25d89164f8d40e68f
font_02_sfnt_off00013631.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13631 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 50ec59ca852bf50a216d4d6d7b961e41f0c2616becc4785a0a4dc423287fc343