Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b181a70329f1ca70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-09-25 06:34:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: c870587a497a09ecfc0ac2e073116b3c SHA-1: b4d9946584c27de93e168fea1e186767239f0f14 SHA-256: b181a70329f1ca7064212afc5c37854b4147e6d8a4e11b98cca8c1b32adfdeff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress installations and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure itself is leveraged to host these links, indicating a potential for exploitation or phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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=market+leader+elementary+teacher%27s+book PDF link annotation
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142e7a0415a4---kexuvixakapuxoxinodatug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latgalesamatnieki.lv/files/file/vukuvatipofolatoledenuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tiande-global.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13306939592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614838495d23b---fapinapunitekajerapesewax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bike-aholic.com/UserFiles/file/37884530611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07np3r75inr9ve1926s4ps2s7j/37906778250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akanaymatbaa.com/calisma2/files/uploads/88557936410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signfabapp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wojukojozizot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzmzwl.com/Uploadfiles/files/69797899671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chorland-dining.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/11631590655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnianemarzenie.pl/userfiles/file/12506345942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/idvfottlgg90vmcj8ce37h1iv1/zemufapasalesufupusogiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143008ee051a---72443348794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhhangkhong.com/upload/images/files/tuvirewaxugirekoduwex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinawin-consult.com/userfiles/fimofiwomixegerujopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139d2b23ff48---xosevitarikoxenokab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-biyoute.com/d/files/508565063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viettincapital.vn/upload/files/84574225177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpjseah.news-read.com/upload/files/26602613388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ccbed54dac---87322740000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicodama.it/userfiles/files/354940260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appartementslisa.it/an3_Uploads/file/bezago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a72bef8c3a8d055fb28c8b656bfb116/31169689000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martom24.pl/martom/userfiles/file/13571142007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medic-pneumolog.ro/fisiere/file/74100473073.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_off0000b537.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB537 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD4E 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 17dd541134ec364db072717b68e33603004f64c8a1e69ef9d882d3e8e6cefaa9
font_02_sfnt_off0000e678.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE678 15456 bytes
SHA-256: eeb2026c614621db2f1d3e4b057aef561804639dc12b390c6bc606cf38091f0a