Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1e773d7920d5f7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 00:30:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ff0a4f4e5881a2d58f5db69877fd1c8e SHA-1: 97550a445b72d6cbae1743f68649d7872712ad05 SHA-256: b1e773d7920d5f7bb7aed423208c1d9a5ba051fb6259d2e570d79d85ccc3745a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, specifically leveraging WordPress upload vulnerabilities. The presence of a 'link farm' on disposable hosting suggests an attempt to obscure the true destination or to distribute malicious content through a chain of redirects.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=basic+aikido+techniques+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe68da0b4e9---zunokebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksiclubcom.ksiclub.org/svnprojects/DHD/Source/images/files/xozeveguzav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patroha.hu/file/senubomaguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laptoptranganh.com/data/dulieu/files/sivizumobesofokikogiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4123e2d6a0---mijaturazemafebesuvude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160781ddd1b807---48443569562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hobbstownis100.com/clients/6/66/66141d04a4341350d76ae3a38785cb5a/File/75197294324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mjb9k2bimt97phr0vgfbc4pgkd/femasajogesuzegelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namngonviet.com/user-/files/73212585398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boekenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/86093503503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/18729245353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/29087629738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zopos.zohukum.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58878883790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideco.hu/upload/file/34990832737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moonlightmontessori.com/upload/files/kanonoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.sk/upload/2595077424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daotaolaixesontay.com/uploads/file/25723022648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c8508388b5---benomidud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-zvuk.ru/upload/file/rarezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab41ab0511e---kudeboti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607360567f4e2---kufomigiwizibisuwakoxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scouttautomotive.com/editor_uploads/system/files/89094646249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quick-thailand.com/images/uploads/file/jivafovuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b0c2ac4b31---matekinugobem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tc-antey.ru/uploads/files/8153068311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/jikofovad.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_off0000ee7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE7B 18216 bytes
SHA-256: 8be19d6589cda1bfdfec57dc792d0f6adfa56f76027259a2d2152a9abfaa536b
font_01_sfnt_off00011e0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E0A 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 8e56346ba37f219374e118d7bb8b7b5af9a0fab46e790db8544a4b6e863e3954
font_02_sfnt_off00013745.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13745 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1