Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2c4b86e650e95a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-06-30 02:16:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: f39c439da2a262f8b952b0591b2e5ca4 SHA-1: 816f5e72365953ca244251cb85c71acd5a9d17bc SHA-256: b2c4b86e650e95a80e8ba9613b79445f0731bcef3c41978a5c9fbbd5c705e7c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests an intent to redirect users to malicious or phishing content, likely as part of a broader phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://abnicum.com/files/file/34712899917.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://thenavyaindustries.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lakaxojuwiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ua44214a8cf79q08lch62dnhk6/negipujitexozuxolosekaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af1567978e2---50477278446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kasekimi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160753a780ed6c---67474678291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160700ad2c8ca1---valulixazefazerawemimagam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ihvanturizm.com/rsm/files/71367076227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9rp9494vhku1mkqi44ral72po3/fujijudife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7af75a014---kudidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae1493fe2db062bfa86bc4f47c71220d/pulim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bmat.mn/uploads/ckfinder/files/kolasitekisek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/43033656098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1ac3dbd252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitylightsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e5ef4bc763d092be32747025098e66e/kakofixotalobaxupuwug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/jiribekenuwisulake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioguagnoni.it/userfiles/files/17054566335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adreshosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/gilalajopixewakibapimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.analfissur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073bb3b59eba---24998666007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s534nub7qfv4p0re1kv161gv67/5711171322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c13dbc8bb0fdd2e0573980236826099d/84853709007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b96473ea3fa4df8c3461a2d6faeba00/jikopasiruregaxide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charlesstreetvideo.com/userfiles/file/1239884390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debden.org/userfiles/file/zumanaxaruduzowej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fbd2c774d8---vizitabatafut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1efbe8d1e---37512389392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=incredimail+compatible+windows+10PDF 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_off0000eac8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAC8 16796 bytes
SHA-256: d20fc1be7014a5ca4b3dba35f7ac88522cd84d3f6d7b27adc16fbd92cccb6abb
font_01_sfnt_off000115c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115C3 11028 bytes
SHA-256: 6976b9c0719a3340d4ca3b4fbd9aa167579c71dd279b8e1e40257f6b94dac778
font_02_sfnt_off00012f36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F36 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1