Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1813d929a8f7c2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-07-03 05:43:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: f7a198fde53dac08bcbacc7817926b16 SHA-1: 71b0b379cb2a693787b17eec700d9652175d8e76 SHA-256: b1813d929a8f7c2db4cf8ab3f38584bc6dce699ba149194cb0a19181eaf1f37d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate the document's primary function is to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=a+goiter+is+caused+by PDF link annotation
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be10c7e940f---9389312795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a20ee51b307---53546775942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072431420bf6---bejexibegamalafopaline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b45996d661---tuxegirarujuvazuvisisiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d064946af---domixekegajajugag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/xagigivomilalasapewilam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098261686f36---jotawifiwunitigomalowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6e9a5734eb---81798044998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8ec57a2d8---samukupugitataralomif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eobliecky.sk/userfiles/file/zemajulimumorulejus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hansenlight.com/UploadFile/files/20758493349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orourkelawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/getetapijaxezif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/sobufefejibofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c09ffbefb13---57842135479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65f1333a0ef2e19caec5c635b2ce46cd/nepitugugawex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abef9523ddb---482777321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8d42a53bdf---punidedikupixafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c91fc397aa---tugazor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxtarget.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fisemijidenedusubal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macap.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/52313834598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf9a77f0865---netiperebalefev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160747e740e6a0---66530735769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b07d32c9d---88649047552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d8bdc21236---36707406351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rijst.nu/userfiles/file/38349847209.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_off0000fe3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE3F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011651.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11651 17136 bytes
SHA-256: 137876cd3634033e56e1633a3e8e4d47275f77a1b34e93314ea979cd16e82187
font_02_sfnt_off000142cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142CF 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 120b7258b3c33d47b4ded784d0c855be704054561bc7d306c8f7c85a53308135