Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2081759609fe76d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

142.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 08:37:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: aa7fb4e89078ffa0178c5a655f515764 SHA-1: bb44aaed8d7dbc0e8206703e2f6a0ddb10a91c10 SHA-256: b2081759609fe76ddda1ea950e90ad467711e666a89a3ac6398820ef33470a26
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file detected by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and form a link farm. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cac955d29db---zeripevu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://studiogaleazzo.eu/userfiles/files/65595908809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallahi-sch.com/userfiles/file/zameje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2da321a044ad8c5f159acb0343d54620/xixuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jngf.cn/files/file/nalon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccf7077f99d2f26cc516e7879afe7c71/vezod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926752a5faa---negiluwigapunejiwerasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argumentua.com/i/file/toziwajelituk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111396d1ee61---julosunopesakupapuwokujaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hazeloyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/85791271846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imcborivali.org/userfiles/file/bizopaforuwizajilasojugen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5e187727421ccf3259961de0bf288da/92096686744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9d0b102a6wc3y4a.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210627005629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispecom.com/cms_dispecom/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/74721770306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788c06359fb---38133755116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.frank-diagn.hu/userfiles/files/xiniweluvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supair-lux.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bumexumugofifeziteguxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logisticsnetworks.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rabituxalanumok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://booknowrentalimo.ch/userfiles/files/toloseditajav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oteaexpert.fr/cite_imgs/file/50597154105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b4c2acc16c---82022966517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876ae18a6e4---resipovimudutojolupizofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9a6ba849e4---12115494944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefjordbaklawfirm.com/clients/876731/File/xavomor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrick-jardinage.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53720147650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=cosmic+manuscript+pdf+en+francaisPDF 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_off0001c63b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C63B 20088 bytes
SHA-256: ce5b2041b77cd2e8dbba4082b0b3f01c26793d47897abe6d2f52dc2822b4fbea
font_01_sfnt_off0001fa50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1FA50 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 6aa6f0d92bac0048b9d0a81c11c8f79ada39bfe9869d3f36bcb5df2a307f5811
font_02_sfnt_off00021370.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x21370 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1