Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2dd78a39840e7b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 02:52:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: fd8443cd3be61b76b216f31073e61126 SHA-1: d245115dde1ba6993b768b3fe67df16d53c298ff SHA-256: b2dd78a39840e7b364fcf8bdd6577be0777cd8598e83289aaa7776fb51b32eaa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites, which in turn serve further PDF files. This pattern suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign leveraging compromised infrastructure to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608029cf3d0ec---33866349465.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://prawobrzeze.info/userfiles/file/pobarujizap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rotitelor.com/contents//files/46191819351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oodow.cn/upload/file/210703123016886480xkrxsb09h9gc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612cef3b0d067---51733722058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debeight.net/UserFiles/File/60687259751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantalife.nl/userfiles/file/32403091919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e90e87f091b---pugimozigovomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1aaa3a27d0---zatutadipepaban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fw-simple.com/uploads/files/86818773213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa5c4704416---71242433039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tempatpasang.com/contents/files/nuguvomewofapewakixupav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/fivitumokefususod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31f2ce5143208bed9ae110528692d941/60011950326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/garekepilupuzuvaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-machinery.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/nexekigunuzubix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/jilazunojudixuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f71c49cb97---zenamumun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1faf5a1ac5---zekefadojokiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=james+stewart+calculus+6th+edition+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_off0000b29a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB29A 11228 bytes
SHA-256: f9e45dc1458accba05eedfa6775a41cc99068a12ec95aae8607b15871bf857e5
font_01_sfnt_off0000ccc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCC4 15604 bytes
SHA-256: dc874d92e14a0b261abcb827297783f4944b3e811e5b1eb132dfe77e9c94b330
font_02_sfnt_off0000f498.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF498 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1