Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b17a0932854ce030…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-08-20 15:50:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4a6f577cd5adde3160d65aea9344066b SHA-1: e506a8bff8c8a0e586095aa132d74a3013aefed4 SHA-256: b17a0932854ce030f7e1acc8dfbbc689f56c8fc8e8f44d8273a0477e70b82406
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The embedded URLs and the heuristic firings strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://schachverein-marchhoefe.ch/fcsr/news/upload/file/pimowegogoxepatewi.pdf
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8a0e6aaa9050cb46711a1d34899bc24/78454166491.pdf
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1f8a18145462fe874cd35eb879a9c2e/25694598715.pdf
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9e0efafaee3487b5db539409c65d86b/mepumeviw.pdf
    • http://vtaky.sk/media/file/rixum.pdf
    • http://scvumaichiramen.com/uploads/files/84691397797.pdf
    • https://chameleoncoupons.com/adgprocessing/uploads/files/nenow.pdf
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce415af76f9a59e09bfcf6a09fba96b0/39076493000.pdf
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ma7338466jcsavk490fgfq04u1/38139851931.pdf
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160affd490e957---dulunokebafolenuj.pdf
    • http://wellnesszeewolde.nl/site/data/ws/files/11230633406.pdf
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607222cf8242a---66658032046.pdf
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d443e416285---46989531245.pdf
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f030f12f84---52101074434.pdf
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070d6bde11ba---pupemefurobiwofux.pdf
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096a459eb4f4---pinonupapumusaso.pdf
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/saxanojup.pdf
    • http://ctkupavna.ru/upload/file/nimavejetomovelemi.pdf
    • https://okazionche.com/files/72513869765.pdf
    • https://www.adoz.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77629100888.pdf
    • http://vandientuchinhhang.com/upload/files/2341927911.pdf
    • https://matras-matrasych96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36611668773.pdf
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc2e61dc24---59953753654.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=calendario+2020+mexico+pdf+escolar
    • 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_off0000d231.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD231 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea43.bin
5f495ec6125c7def1616a4a9f79b44d8586be227e49549b8bdfe5684d192a34f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA43 18068 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000118e5.bin
75f2d85585e254c0f39682468ff86096dc2be63945037b82f33a37b5eabd7faa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118E5 11056 bytes