Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b117261fc6baae36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-08-19 08:01:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a2fdafd6723ccba04befb0856130f2f2 SHA-1: c4b5db1ebf353f05168e1e82038b291147b5b8eb SHA-256: b117261fc6baae36523f32481baa9544fbc51a635a3fccd6022c469364e0d169
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, likely intended to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to distribute malware through deceptive links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608132feb2734---xuxapem.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://karapinarinsaat.net/userfiles/upload/file/27691796855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070e76fd176a---56212037658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/dodidezizinepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accountingworld.in/singhania/downloads/file/88467512920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d812a610b---23106937492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bczenekar.hu/files/file/37510009161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160906343dfde4---bolupebupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608842d64cfcb---muvawozivejamuxupemeteju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cocoal.com/uploads/file/legubif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084704639094---madabetapalux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gewald.ru/content/Files/fiwalasajaviralevelisage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radio-kum.si/data/files/40649774231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lsneotek.com/ckupload/files/wivunatoxetex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestaerospace.com/uploads/file/29917381625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d7846daccc---lulisirisoxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f202a11c543d9cfe58669cbac67d4e2/65617092523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1858f2598aa227ec21f9788af2f2e88/26522334777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vishalaholidays.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20479532467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thumpamonpally.com/userfiles/file/xelikivusage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099a46292152---duwagozige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allgeology.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50402703806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mo37ttr5s9j7craddt83q45emu/tesupegegidukugakuworeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wodepcb.cn/uploadfiles/files/fajine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=fundamentals+of+futures+and+options+markets+solutions+pdfPDF 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_off0000c1a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1A5 25048 bytes
SHA-256: 62719f5d0eed46af981ee8b822ff9973ee93be95381ca3154d267710f9039305
font_01_sfnt_off0000f47c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF47C 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 12a4824ce6e1fd6c07591f4db1aa6fe2ea0327bb5dbe8d95c822d81b53a4cf66
font_02_sfnt_off00010d6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D6C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1