Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1751d23455477b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.8 KB Created: 2021-07-24 12:45:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3a1511666d9b2cc4e5aa77b753d6d69a SHA-1: fc0050bf94b84aef5a97a2224c682e828ecc1988 SHA-256: b1751d23455477b09d8b28bd3142b98889a3e63be3b70f8be54a5f9f09860cc1
164 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, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic suggests a phishing pretext, and the ML classifier strongly flagged the PDF as malicious. ClamAV also detected it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1688da3750---41612672700.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/33349433627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5521171abbe4dfc8ff4314219e9c263b/jatog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609413b5740db---gedalif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f423f4b40ef---dojagasusidavilimasilil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a10ef878b9---68213815646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a1d643c01f---95139035917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/kigepibugavofisixunux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protradingindia.net/userfiles/file/53895638989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/konuxopubuvuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peiitw.com/Upload/ckeditor/files/404854702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szaktel.hu/uploads/file/85260399214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanyoujie.vip/userfiles/file/nifulijuxepeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bangiyaparishadtoronto.ca/bpt/editor/uploadfiles/ribujexozuzediraralot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/woxanidoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alate.org/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/ribizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elm3rad.com/file/30538522915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bandenplaats.nl/cmsimages/file/84746929637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2a2693c84e---xakanomadabiguwutiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecompletecontact.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuxavekixulenij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddaf07ccfc08448347a4d945e277c5a6/10409594045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deficanderel.org/clients/6/67/674a09facce11b7629d390eef9534ff9/File/56680168743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhuaduongnhapkhauaz.org/upload/files/35952342352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=wilkes+barre+direct+operations+center+po+box+1020PDF 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_off0001120a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1120A 16912 bytes
SHA-256: 416065624459523d008629d8146291753aed29465051cd8608c75b14ce1a73f0
font_01_sfnt_off00013e10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E10 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015627.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15627 11128 bytes
SHA-256: 3690f1203c46e646fd3c3397213cfb544d5cce15b18d2a9f446c60b22da50f46