Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1a8674a7c7ed340…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-08-24 20:16:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 019e028e6391af75735c6b6aca214014 SHA-1: d7346d95956d3f0967ac5eb841664866a409634c SHA-256: b1a8674a7c7ed34013fb706659d99534cbd3e98fd1d4a3e483d60360e3194ba2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating malicious content. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://ciarajewellery.com/editor_upload/file/jubexegenanebukenok.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/481d4aee381c681867bb4d96d3b6cf1f/32375030363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proektasis.gr/admin/spaw2/uploads/files/sizajosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluetact.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/lumujeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/26435586378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/19316655267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjpexport.com/files/65725659075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grapes4u.ca/sites/all/sites/grapes4u.ca/files/ruguxenufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098f98fb99dd---bebaxozisenemanud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608612fee15fb---83769001584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab07809fbe1---nexesekagojekefisamawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphaconsultinggroup.us/vpw/images/file/93120212091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pileshoppen.dk/userfiles/file/kotamatovov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1e4079b9cb4ee3ea92049e23c91f516/novivaseninofegup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096e9c3cbd70---4077568768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szakkepzosiklos.hu/upload/file/wanasopesozuvubapip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michardardillier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37128625262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079dff8aea85---kadalopurodebigibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blueleaves.ru/userfiles/file/wubibejiverujuzejixob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/867f546b66344cbf2a9cf2de92813a5e/wogadizugifobin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e19c3e51a---duzujoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b8e43836a4c14def6fbaba4fca397df/70023359619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=why+did+immigrants+move+westPDF 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_off0000e693.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE693 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 2f2b5e8eeb94bb7bb70d7df1ebb8cd9be2026bc26ca0d026846093e87212f959
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF80 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011792.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11792 17940 bytes
SHA-256: 990aea02e2c167c4a207f615b294f6105c10a58bad246e3cba2218c20ddd51a2

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