Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2b6ff4085aa0f0a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 07:38:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 95e7f6f471aaf15c01a5ce54e61e662e SHA-1: 9264da778d55b0bf9fc7f13f5f6cb4fbb0fd40f3 SHA-256: b2b6ff4085aa0f0a0b1db7be8314f7845f97ca183448b78545e61bff3135e166
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations used for hosting PDF files. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of using disposable hosting for link farms, suggesting an attempt to obscure the true malicious destination. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=toyota+innova+2012+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e1fa3b7c85---61538677225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladida.asia/sporlegen/administrator/imagetempfile/11114170633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paroissedementon.fr/upload/files/27055904099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mdteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45188947019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freeski.hu/freeski/file/visibilivijowuzutobuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmost.pl/userfiles/file/puvanuwitoxuxijifoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e60a957a2b---jedoviwakowebiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hdurmuslar.com/images_upload/files/gulavanafosudorobibifilig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f02f2a1ef6---lupaxaduwiluze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093bda46f6f6---jitabil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5qnrbub8ki551kpd40cjrl881/vufileluporogoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rodolphe-blanchet.fr/Rodolphe/fckeditor/file/lisugatunixezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/47874222347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingprocess.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jagefalaxovugedaxakura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbkbafwdti1ahihccrg.xn--p1ai/pict/file/daxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094839133da2---rotezexunigotovubub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c0d1f6577a---fufupawus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiroi-es.info/yamituki-n/uploads/files/radesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royal-pizza.eu/files/file/zufitibivipetutoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096784a90041---jozeravida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wemservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fesilitugejiregefetiwodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merwepizza.com/upload/file/24879195641.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_off0000b47a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB47A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC8C 16740 bytes
SHA-256: 6a8e18377d0f8538f0e2aa616a63727f9d55849c9ef76f302e5bd5bf5bd473a1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f83c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF83C 10408 bytes
SHA-256: a5249af8e5fc43f0c9e515b20ed03d1e8a90a76e784e5fdae7923d9e42c2e7a2