Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1c0278c84523199…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-06-12 00:05:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 18062f09872d52bdf9093709115ebad2 SHA-1: b20c75d2c10040651e750c50241b44127aee0388 SHA-256: b1c0278c84523199e383245b1cca310c66a7807843927395b523be48cba4a5a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, indicated by the presence of numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing campaign aiming to trick users into visiting malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=aadat+apni+chod+de+song PDF link annotation
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baed116b275---19529988405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090082c40a11---fofenizok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160715fd4a8a4a---fegapoveguvuwinodos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a8d9f9092cfce0111a6adbbf4540574/24258190115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7lgfl48m34l5372e5sk32ksjej/44737247946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/24585618066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/59338355895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/291026466150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160746883601c2---pabikux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://score1forspencer.com/clients/4/45/4587145e2679cb7673d0e21b436e5c25/File/gepivoriwejosudobawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cb7ae8c1b2f8762d7c7a9dc49f694c4/nitenawupojedipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806fd7519bf---37663567875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc168ba5115b211d72ab1db736dac434/85510152969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southernlightingsource.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/672d0920c7a90d20347cf3c7ea0fcbb5/57001715735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dnhs71969a2g4f3u2rdnap3nga/momab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d758.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD758 5196 bytes
SHA-256: 903e63203f7860e2a7f2f68b8a242c69b0269b232f2798d78f0f8bf639c19e3c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e901.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE901 7040 bytes
SHA-256: 3ea7b8c31d821ab0df766c014a80a6b6bfb08579fe6fec2c8e7004faabc95855
font_02_sfnt_off00010155.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10155 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 79c0837bf8ed5063144c8acaa6f0b62b5c20c5d8bf0b1a8e7b712d1bd030de66
font_03_sfnt_off000126c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126C2 16416 bytes
SHA-256: 84eaa205fbd3d77ed239360b939986ab54cc6b3fe44af541ecac7fdaf52132d4