Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1a86e1b563a7e5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-07-22 03:35:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f6d18a1feb1fecbb464eca4be37f52ed SHA-1: fc102845bc6d5f7a2009d5777c3f19a0ccaa3085 SHA-256: b1a86e1b563a7e5fc9a288104cb319c86fb491131cb7e5e6734ff132fb45ecf6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://frezerovka.by/images/fxeditor/file/bobolonadoteniwamepazemoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8fab742222---pugoronadap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c93e9a9fdfaf3ad5deb6a417bfa34409/74624837125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c89e9b5f822---lewumotadorigonuluxaxixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amsasecretariat.fr/userfiles/file/45146163794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0b7061f382---xesagikemegoxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac369290711---dijesosurarivam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e940781404558ce255cc33030eeafd77/39472915619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arch.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13002967913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r3pllh7qhnuvhb9i8tpdnh2di5/89423896120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malopolskiszlakwinny.pl/upload/File/xigupim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skikk.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/42782295778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/74411742015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safeabortionnepal.com/userfiles/file/fadetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160789c4ee3fc8---29656545049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotoner123.com/home/autotone/public_html/ckeditortest_WORKING/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zolopim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j-club.eu/userfiles/file/45886160856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eternalbliss.net/file/lifoburupaxowiwaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1c3dd9385b---fosigozijurafezug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/79630076042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e11a9754473---40712637761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160757a0b796f5---81918953973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/674d1c8a7d93599a4e6bb7d8cb2348f7/41454115604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=famous+quotes+of+napoleonPDF 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_off0000fab9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAB9 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 533a1d5e224b4b66e16baf8b89d808da5d416b38e0831cb5a2f9f8e7bb565f64
font_01_sfnt_off000112ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112CA 17060 bytes
SHA-256: 000b95e62cf73d4f3a05eec480dffb9ac27232e37fb80c06f9e95140bd793c4c
font_02_sfnt_off00013ea5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EA5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1