Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b198506429f379ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-08-17 06:52:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 1404ff8ea2877f141f5f0497569ad86e SHA-1: da85a772ed3cdbf40944160b6c78906722278145 SHA-256: b198506429f379ee411f2dfa905d0310f83046d88a23df8aa7531b28d20b0695
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9944

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 http://ozdesignhouse.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/luliluzovilupijoxuka.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b094b01c5f8---54618439559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160897907324e2---zugumipowew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5328a0d150---50835961532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalyna.ua/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/jakexixumexipafotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/65339741019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theelementrama9.com/userfiles/files/dogonujiguredefajunufofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivierdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47602194429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuaphatlailongthanh.com/upload/contentFile/minhchau/file/serafiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea5db6b4d654a0e69e8069671ed57622/75402536077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intertribo.sk/files/84729976833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-klub.dk/userfiles/file/83457872777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.eu/userfiles/file/10049167926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cupta.org/userfiles/files/20210622001956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livre-art.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/derekep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843368aed30---1104849125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/rujesosopok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paeonia.ch/userfiles/files/kigif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b40bffb5689---97164020595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acce586a1c9---lugigixez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtcclassof81.com/clients/0/0a/0a45bd3013a8cc77df817aa526a911b1/File/54503343984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/zolimunesijoxedudiwuwine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a4f9c15c5d---belidiwusabaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f83ce5877aca95751e82a22637ba34f/xolewigovuxileluxubawozuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088f89041af2---nisatupuxudezosuvomukemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788005518be---xagilolenibil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=director+resignation+letter+sample+pdf+australiaPDF 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_off0000e170.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE170 11064 bytes
SHA-256: dd157eaeedd3aea83a5a679390f3bee40a20c6be8b2584ed6ce9e80335e3c9b0
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB03 17108 bytes
SHA-256: c84f4fe361567b9564c1294b105f87d5f684f6905e2c59dae3c75a6ff32bc044
font_02_sfnt_off00012794.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12794 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1