Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1147dda9510add8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-21 16:34:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 00a826a3375f790e155e8402dc9e2b28 SHA-1: 0e16da65aadad2a8c56efe5ce09df5426845da19 SHA-256: b1147dda9510add8a32cc8c35a5f34e12ad972c87d0179c80725c90be25e9744
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external domains, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its direct content, but the presence of numerous external links suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://sgcaregiver.org/contents/files/serur.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://17njl.com/userfiles/files/89375487721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinarlangit1.com/contents/files/25889714616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e330cab65d---nukopizegewupeziveba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----9sbbnbtte4cyg.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33665016221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldmenu.com/userfiles/file/96740378950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketypik.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/revaseriruterofamexegudul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138401da8d72---siwenajitukikuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ustunongel.com/image/files/79813642778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146ab26c4074---sigelolalamedemorudadopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c070eec464---nevowojiwijejizuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenfci.org/userfiles/file/49742768576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdafc23f00d8559e6a3c1ae529d73e89/68857107932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agt.es/files/galeria2/files/44981095153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josepholszowka.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/55636336291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xedulichhaiphong.vn/images/news/files/77946318087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uko1eelanrd1mh7m8fre509jbl/polok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czyxchem.com/upload/files/47966096415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizit-k.net/uploads/editor/files/68232006907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mweb.cz/images/file/70386518125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnogonomerov.ru/uploads/file/4887040582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knowleangling.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vixenifabopax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0636fbd2b892b903cd33ecb62745611f/birad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malerbetrieb-malanders.de/Webseite/pics/fotos/1/file/30799755157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=insta+story+saver+pro+apkPDF 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_off0000da4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA4D 19176 bytes
SHA-256: e855c97a467d081299b7a1be6c48b81cb61b239665a0da4d16e5db0aea5ef5fd
font_01_sfnt_off00010baf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BAF 10332 bytes
SHA-256: a1e1240df3c7d87f35ef81d440e97f627a6801d68d364767addeefca7324e45b
font_02_sfnt_off00012336.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12336 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1