Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1225d83f77eff5e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 15:09:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: acc82e8c4c9863c3073d6d0223b0bfff SHA-1: 961a983c908c85232e89b1427b07966dc0662f83 SHA-256: b1225d83f77eff5eb2a90f71c40eb65870f7151dd92ec9a6ffca0acdc71dcab1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the presence of external URIs suggest an attempt to leverage external resources for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=shikshan+adhigam+ke+siddhant+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a667b5e447d---wujozem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gelblighting.com/userfiles/files/9070368684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/236383879f40f5c3e2431449cc13e003/39649048660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba3a115e783---59984785742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087f2941f32d---56762149248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429150454533031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d9fcd02d1---wurijil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzdsbg.com/uploadfile/1622506552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa840da3b26497ae38abb208a3f524c9/vogifawakakojuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/206129411667923c7261e8094abe185e/zepebuvovigomovuwadobir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607347ddd3c07---2885150270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actaviaserica.org/board/file/files/69922011060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607da99f8ec05---sexatawew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northphoenixmustangs66.com/clients/4/4b/4b49b54eec06ebba3741256e9f3e6f2b/File/24867752006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banlinhkienlaptop.com/userfiles/file/6720121229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fab12e8db0---98029527291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centreforeffectivecoaching.com/media/file/49921345974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imi.vc/upload/files/39715688631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u8e5ldiincltuob941j6cla5vi/somaxinitijilovulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isemya.by/modules/ariol/static/ariol/ckfinder/files/sawexuguriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenno-tojestto.pl/userfiles/file/wowidukaxepetolesevotuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transport.frontiermyanmar.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75707378814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8dba2608cd0af14ec74619a9f81be7a/96419235328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gma.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wenemivuwutajad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c7b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7B5 11108 bytes
SHA-256: 0eb7601a921d1103f82988600c64eb2b960cd70c3ceaf81833cc710c4ba35c5f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0FB 19872 bytes
SHA-256: 7de36d2062504c80f16fb2985cfa3f6c028697cde0ea0c713deeab228287c627
font_02_sfnt_off00011599.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11599 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1