Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1eb320040d85b43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.2 KB Created: 2021-06-29 12:10:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 24d2a5313f678a81ada7ac2bee86c0c0 SHA-1: 9c8b65703a524a467224c4499621df38ba548ff9 SHA-256: b1eb320040d85b43bfeb9c91d4bd9dd39c00b09cf2755438783a6db9df3fa826
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 high ML score and ClamAV detection. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users to phishing pages or download further malware. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and links per host suggests a broad distribution effort.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://arerp.kr/data/file///38302635341.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e03fb1091737ebab14e542eafc087b8a/90033512352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logo4you.dk/userfiles/file/gafikoguxopijojomiluti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/329bdc6d5547ff3322d830cdb91d3559/lulelunirazapexur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://18554080.com/userfiles/file/59221837480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/208fba34553097ec8fe62ac96527e92e/dujoralilizosen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2839517288bd93909963cc4adc9a8bff/28502019258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://networkinglikepro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32584257674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843d17c15f9---difez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d9c19d100---ranowezamem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a2c8db2db7---11375605783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aab0f5593fc---nikekiwabex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watthaistuttgart.de/userfiles/file/nenelomosigevig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070dbfc5998a---63167011930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e8b333c4a---papikenutogojunazivunuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scheiden-maassluis.nl/uploads//file/86527896921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a81203a3a6---10241926999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b63b0f2d818b8aef17802e0109d91b23/dovifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f93e7a5fa07e25d119f2f0115874f823/sewisifusijaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leguido.net/files/wezemigaxemidorusakogaxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=abusive+wife+divorce+indiaPDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1103a8df6266cd91d84d72c9861ad9ad/30757919916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d91a1ac9644e8c0df0ed2302af272a2/96425230115.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_off000118b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118B9 16208 bytes
SHA-256: 7df2cd2fb6e97e767f4d5d352a3e423ea85ac4832834189d1fbcd7894f9c5848
font_01_sfnt_off000142ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015ac5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15AC5 10696 bytes
SHA-256: e9dc929c27e849136efdc7bc99202a5b8e2eac499b78b367c760c6bc9bbe2fe7