Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2b03a659f469840…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-08 17:53:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 9b5b275a9762ac82e91eedc712758288 SHA-1: 05c80180098560523c36a1fa48aef1ebc0f5de59 SHA-256: b2b03a659f469840e3e3a1aae854bd641828dbf7b9dc46d66c41441a97f54676
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it's a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious websites, with several URLs hosted on compromised WordPress instances or disposable domains. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of an attempt to exploit users via external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://mayinmaunhat.com/upload/files/72780146928.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://predit.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31119500307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamokugrofa.sk/admin/fckeditor/file/vegagikebegiwobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbeytraining.net/userfiles/file/43516057940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fusiongrup.ro/userfiles/file/fopewusaperiwog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ppntassone.it/dati/upload/file/difubijojedujude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthibds.net/images/files/59035525381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rspon.pl/images/wyswig_images/file/89455964826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rvi5hgh58lgeqr4m8ets95depv/zinoduniwatumesubinebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9017388487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://varbackaforskola.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xolelojejuxuwasew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131ff58eaf73---bebalolesuvijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbbg1ddpkdc.xn--j1amh/uploads/files/gapojigexidaxinevenoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfgame.snailgame.ru/upload/files/20210902055817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://8njl.com/userfiles/files/gatifeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ihanzao.com/userfiles/file/20210908164606_538095808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyescare.vn/app/webroot/upload/ckfinder/files/fezupoxinuxotezajanipafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-sportis.com/images/upload/11494925244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diedacorporation.net/freesiafiles/file/volilotabuvokopar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jerseybankruptcylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/60749851474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ia8b97ugo07vpvi7ki6hrlvmc6/91250869591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=taalcompleet+a2+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000c712.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC712 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000df24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF24 17876 bytes
SHA-256: 1a7f3aa00a9ed5b9b96e61d1792ad2aad7bcd333e08b635a84457e253dc667c3
font_02_sfnt_off00010d6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D6C 10592 bytes
SHA-256: ae7e53ce57e69b59ff5b1a6220772051ff42c7488e4666506860b6dca36a450e

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