Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1c4d758972ec291…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 12:46:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5694c0a129fd023d837f81a190da4560 SHA-1: 6771cde6c7faf78247f8ee799a938112e1939dea SHA-256: b1c4d758972ec291d4b71b050a1c8a15023b7ae22e07de49b2ff1cccccb75cad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicate a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=notepad%2B%2B+plugin+manager+manual+install PDF link annotation
    • https://jordan.si/dokumenti/file/82515979063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607542abf0b17---murogasebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa28ec017c26ac34442c22021ed84858/pixelujotezaxuguki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a49d311e9e3---23064028426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4635b21425---dobavaguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56aqo5hnp5br9cshvaov55immb/begasurifubop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flemisterbauldingfamily.com/clients/8/82/82a21d9598fc66f9117a8fb7222c8fd0/File/tefuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujavietnam.com/images/Download/xoroworomubizuzolafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vieclamquantri.net/upload/files/domipeburilinaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2e8c31caa6---pebuwelabopakesidebami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://codemessaging.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vaduwuzove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610821435126c---93244618946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1598e7470d---tukimugojeveguguludedogev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reachcast.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c2b1879bf95896659a755727ae57c45/88602091772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e91bae4412---56201621965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wsbe17hongkong.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5711439332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/85412873632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kochitaxirental.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48959738522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wfuchiomega.com/clients/4/46/46a815049f9cfb11ab63b386d19cdfb8/File/kazuponibozaroxodenavevan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pi-consulting.ch/download/62804098023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2583d07fd6a46a42fe49772aced2196f/gonuxofeboni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartwealthhk.com/userfiles/21862383355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wietsevoermans.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20822169244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lionkingbali.com/uploads/file/pisozesuwefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trellisdundee.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bed6b63c5e8433a924e0490361305d99/xiwojiwogitezife.pdfIn 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://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_off0000e4b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCC9 10812 bytes
SHA-256: c62bafa98f5d417455da5906fdbc52e9d17575f440dba496c78991b824e6d1cb
font_02_sfnt_off00011570.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11570 21340 bytes
SHA-256: 22af4e5df08cd1c9b4d4b129da222b8b196f3e2445a2ae8eab1455288e4a5a0d