Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b120ae7652c15bbc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-07-19 04:29:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e83e6c5d87da831cb36da943689dc8c9 SHA-1: b4f3842d32abeff43afe0e8b434932c59ab9896e SHA-256: b120ae7652c15bbc81e8acaa6caae92410ed57d9de3cc4826218e7534ed094e4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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 http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8aganddo4kti0nirtpbjhdcf56/46723025578.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ehotelgateway.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/jarevusetagavufofis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sy-tech.eu/file/kofibuvefulixevane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090405931b50---ginebata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synergyproperty.com/images/files/pamigej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/melorozulum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r3l4tafa621r50taavbs4c6442/vavumeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneolock.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/wijitebosovutod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foodsafebox.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/budokulebud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bladmedyczny24.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acb5c1718c4fff79917ab2edc56c0cc1/77262321161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1159dd1c72c9cfe3c8631bc4fca4720/95871961264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c4acbc0be---17780990495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f15d1aab6aa8a045d9a47dff65a2594b/nasawenanem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ab1a9a.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/xoropibivanogozutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b817dc665---39953140085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cainghienbinhduong.com/uploads/userfiles/file/44463594310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3v8sft24rdhol5op8o3o4qh49b/getuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubenoferro.com/userfiles/file/54274255127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b94jbh7b0iv98pu2aravql2u87/10768186149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608735264e655---39185225702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982c37e9c33---wizudukijugojivunulob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=option+trading+guide+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_off0000f15a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF15A 10584 bytes
SHA-256: cc7e98ada07da9f20657d5e1ad989c3f29190292f931fd4741f278d4597915cc
font_01_sfnt_off00010971.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10971 17276 bytes
SHA-256: 71ec13788f003fc94afbde203e0f214b1decb3f89299d986a4a99644fc05dd28
font_02_sfnt_off000136ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1