Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b131fab0fb951bef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 14:17:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 87dd4181e322bf749e9a7bf647f2289a SHA-1: 9a216c00f4c9aa4c87fd72dbe7f43e4a39726496 SHA-256: b131fab0fb951bef3f58d5d34a6862d0e83e87194affb38e3073cd936fb8f91f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm directing to numerous URLs, several of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for SEO manipulation or to serve further malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm heuristic points to a phishing or spam campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://semagro-msw.ru/pics/images/file/jiwogivewajuwipat.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1arbfjoe3bzh.xn--p1ai/data/files/23995049786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polaria.cz/images/file/tijakosizijazitomaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3955b50515455e365be427aefb0bc3e9/betofigexizakoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealthailand.com/file_media/file_image/file/88829729283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwrva.com/uploads/files/66911480470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0fa6ca9b10be3f4e4cf6a568ff855b4/74291825561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/tutabuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marosme.ro/hirek/file/53530977777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/28306103804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--aknmedikal-yub.com/uploads/file/8879311446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trafikyaren.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sm1lgjhj8ipnrj5qirqo47s100/winakimozakarelozosufut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafichesirio.com/userfiles/files/tatiwilezerusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e53915cec21c80dfc073f73ae58dac8/kazumesasutifuwopozivobad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f6687f307a2---5403082177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://litho-and-co.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/30926134888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chinese-wall.tw/upload/files/muxufobememejaset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://music-summer-courses.eu/upload/files/28330264516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billcolletterealtor.com/clients/e/ef/efe7172bdc9c6addedf700543cb5cb37/File/55552899332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalrep.com/userfiles/files/kotupotawejinetivupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b7a3bcce4---jesujage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomuraca.eu/userfiles/files/8170050905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cbd1e853025d3c3651b4a0f52a18a58/26347624336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peaceinsrilanka.lk/userfiles/file/23307263563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810f3e3eb80---kilawubawepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608743e8799a7---50059333433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=consonant+letters+worksheets+for+kindergartenPDF 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_off0000de08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE08 17688 bytes
SHA-256: 401e3ffbaf3bc144d51fad5595c1b7f29aa615945aef3c7789ddd098d52f3bbc
font_01_sfnt_off00010bcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BCC 10844 bytes
SHA-256: b71e3e30ba811b0f0d5bae44a2eed14955de1a59a26e1bf8b0f805c8382e9d9b
font_02_sfnt_off000124ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1