Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2b321f25681228e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 17:36:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: db3f4991975bc0d3fed94f3dce62d6c2 SHA-1: e57df78c771bfbea7cb6cbcd6d60e719d42314c2 SHA-256: b2b321f25681228edae9f53e1ad3a8cd6f93997110c36bee85084af94bff2b08
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URI heuristics further supports the link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be5e0dc666d---22322937580.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://olddieselparts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44793962058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogies.com/includes/template/uploads/file/73889887365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marchmont.ru/imgs/file/78883586412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b63d655b5c51744d0046307b03566ea/77190974146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d21d862ca0---defuxajagejutovodag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf5c7aec1e---98895712399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fb9bc12c15bda33e3aa537f363abfd4/41572648156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a788f5d245c57491dba91d7f485530b2/refobudaxobevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaae7amexjfdlfdfg.xn--p1ai/files/file/degopokibuvuzomanij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latework.cz/soubory/kosujilenoved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c766192e24fad087683777bc203c07d9/badexosofikitebedopinidex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16116ed76a0a6a---mifefal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161079d816a1a5---12316516044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhledtran.com/luutru/files/3816568112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cimkezes.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24142832914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079eeaeb6c9b---3256559491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovistar-dz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bexugigizipokudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eortak.com/img/fck_temp/file/66797172070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f7f44a502ba2d12ef952237814772a4/92904240856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigbazar.cz/is/images/FCKeditor/File/53320572965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079eda0c9dc5---reditaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getvisa.ru/images/File/numaxomoxusus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adams-gold.ru/archive/image/file/27737076859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=tut+courses+pdfPDF 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_off0000e666.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE666 10272 bytes
SHA-256: b8a4bf3c3fe5cc1f9e1b8ff1ee22525c80897ad39ef0c6c6a897cdef8f50b560
font_01_sfnt_off0000fda5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDA5 17364 bytes
SHA-256: 882eada1e6852d33a6ca2db260847eea56024037fb9601c6b80a9cab74f992eb
font_02_sfnt_off00012ad9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AD9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1