Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1054ef7f427f0e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 05:30:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 1d2be765a2df659b738ae65a279415a3 SHA-1: 69f64e1bfb75ddddbe5b97568cf7cc33d0035bf1 SHA-256: b1054ef7f427f0e56dab65d5c6c6c8b10dd73a7ebe6e1cd600988a15467b9a63
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document contains a link farm pointing to multiple URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites. The presence of numerous links on disposable or compromised hosting suggests a phishing or redirection campaign.

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://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075161b86397---68836183669.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160722aa0926ba---52993744638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tai-yang.tw/taiyang/upload/file/44541762071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh-ruiyangcpa.com/userfiles/file/2021-6///202165162455180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwplazaview.com/uploads/files/20709422284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/49708884673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitaloffice.pl/fotki/file/12895145701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukhatirhomes.com/userfiles/file/nobafanejiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160906b898aa4b---zuxafideg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf9e9e386e4---mukikumujojizakepineminuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b171a2124---jepuxodosut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608039f199866---denazetavevedopilizori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osc-pribor.ru/products_pictures/file/64916980126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c31c150b7d---23504798820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galantemontagnana.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91358149179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3b6b052b3e609868b3e37ea2554bc3b/72981808437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3483cdf81cc0939e6f2d3c3bed80e4b6/kugasagadigozisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6041dfa36b8a36da1d02ed7427eafaa5/50831241035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/220ab82fd5fdf76a014bd46c3407e917/wadevubupudavukimaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamker.hu/userfiles/file/52776264209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b94781e62ad---bovetumowadaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764a8c791ec---62353128157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fc2fab0c30---napepeduvuvasizosovufij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clumba-indoor.ru/files/files/1131690861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+go+pokemon+that+can+be+dittoPDF 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_off0000fa1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA1D 17604 bytes
SHA-256: 4a9b2e3bba9a95338065712bf4e145ac5a9ef345b9ce0141c599d1df6750a53f
font_01_sfnt_off000127c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013fd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FD8 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 9fda992440c8ced4d994168aba2f72a37edefde17cf5809e833bca610a1f0826