Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1d40d8b14d6bc1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-20 22:16:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b4305ed01e16c83fcce964e9b815306d SHA-1: 708c69029bd6d3433f5cfed3804c3b2e2fe030de SHA-256: b1d40d8b14d6bc1f274a024f9aa53a88e8aa88cf0ce662febce44205b219028e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. 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 0.9942

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://phutunggiahungoto.com/uploads/files/nafasexowijir.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944418a3d0d---59560244875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d36a46a0a6fc156844e7e7726913abc3/33383484877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpital-sulecin.pl/images/fckfiles/file/25373962092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a11abed2a16952b1655319fd5053734/41465744465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegreenlegacykeepers.com/clients/e/e8/e8dc17949b7ef813e9937e453902477f/File/71883153749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klefmarken.se/upload/file/ditirudobukulopozep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23917fe45d4aa78f9b25b50a8e598e99/fesorosatapogoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onlinendttraining.com/files/budiminivapav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ab53d59b5---regokatoxajekegegusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/82524216363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theheavent.com/userfiles/files/90055948750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/ferujelumovox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyteepee.com/uploadfiles/file/210516190912340734uwc5ya.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russia-ex.com/timudimar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthivatlieuhoanthien.com/upload/files/kimisupoxilediranagefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6de9aec28abd65df74f85abfd49f730d/kezetuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extracam.es/app/webroot/arxius/file/82911167881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086daf0128a7---kibarove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ea19f9be71---14970797589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9c2ab50506---12814679309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gadd-asso.org/userfiles/file/60749966080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarchperissinotto.eu/userfiles/files/28297775750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.movementmedicineassociation.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mifaloziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkdesign.ee/userfiles/file/65945796833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=foreshadowing+in+the+open+windowPDF 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_off0000ed35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED35 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010547.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10547 17480 bytes
SHA-256: d9b5ad6b9acec6c7d762d4df92e17d033faa3904a519e5cd49e249e3d6859bf0
font_02_sfnt_off000132c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132C9 10688 bytes
SHA-256: f6f7d909fbeaaf5f6e8dab40e30bcc0f5a8f4f9749552a7f6011bafcae5b7143