Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1720de63b814b9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.5 KB Created: 2021-07-18 02:51:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bf95ef01c554eb378c7377fdbd0a6dd8 SHA-1: 83f7192b7dca56830daac7ff3d93d38b801ecfa9 SHA-256: b1720de63b814b9fb1abfdf1ac89f496f6b43a9704a2b6a9fd8f6be82f039ee1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a phishing or redirection scheme. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or exploit vulnerabilities. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of formcraft plugin uploads further support the link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a2c6fcfa01---wezetawu.pdf
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f1206df84e64ba9fa8471ce2dc5ffb3/girutelewowowolised.pdf
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a49c6037c---16737845322.pdf
    • http://szguilong.com/userfiles/files/zuvuzelobuxu.pdf
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/tubirunatakixorope.pdf
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dca1f8f8de---dojimuriwoxazupigofuj.pdf
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210513102607986509442.pdf
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a325180d42c---4060602447.pdf
    • http://www.cddfct.com/up_files/file/68656202156.pdf
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3b34cea03e---pemagoda.pdf
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a230943db---nezabukazenabonuf.pdf
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/xezenaze.pdf
    • http://chanakyaaerospacedefence.com/userfiles/file/wotepamewetafubabegavo.pdf
    • https://nguyenthelong.net/userfiles/files/popipumiluxazuwunuxati.pdf
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb3dec1d20f---84119496837.pdf
    • https://pnlcoach.com/misc2/file/
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/632848a2813c524229e8b8ab4c8dfa78/32119854880.pdf
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/116dafe5bd4483c028598af593671f46/40104531268.pdf
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/46447173379.pdf
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dad2349f9b---kelonuto.pdf
    • http://nguyenquangcomputer.com/upload/ck/files/gadopujukuwuxurebiviwexu.pdf
    • http://westmoorclassof1965.com/clients/5/52/52ec68f2b927accf75267cb07bfcc891/File/takusos.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=is+distemper+contagious+to+humans
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001343c.bin
a0ac880c9370efafb824b1bb45dbe48a216935de741834b5f0afd1e84dbdcb2c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1343C 10968 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00014d3f.bin
b59c62d4d3e28502322dbb47be270bbd1fefe1a9559d27fee8fbca31b59ffc7a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D3F 17644 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00017b3b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17B3B 16792 bytes