Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1c0702fbcc2c971…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.6 KB Created: 2021-06-23 14:07:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 0a3d6a5dd24ec0f0139463160a4ca9b6 SHA-1: a36c78808c602f7fac9da0c9b08ae96d075c6a6a SHA-256: b1c0702fbcc2c971f41010481963e681478b3a69126699ab8d3c763c0f421809
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6gglpe3g5mukkrq5euc740irv/ponaselozimifolijodike.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/dogajan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://store-connector.com/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/kusosowodoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098cf35d86e5---tuxonebideso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jullien38.com/ressource/site-image/files/gukegaxogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhsclassof68.com/clients/73441/File/83798724073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmeds.us/userfiles/file/vuzigixobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorumeo.it/userfiles/files/logelabilirawaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhodnoceni-penez.cz/is/images/FCKeditor/File/nujulozuwesogibakesoxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608719252754f---62652193219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba0aba181fd2fd8c7ba1b1a602be17ca/84317615146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u9nm8guv5kh9iif3sk5ivtr08n/83163131260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef8f9d64d4---94934800120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076fe3318b3a---11208127471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=coc+private+versionPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bce1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCE1 4860 bytes
SHA-256: 4d627498026b6ffbf5f845fc79f9b58afc79e01f9ec6678506c977be13b45706
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD78 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 3722abf5d482836d1db759c097776059a177657b36e260948878ccf2cd9e5801