Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b368930f5db55848…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 07:59:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 84d1ab6d5af89ca05b4a07c364d64866 SHA-1: 29ac352240008ecca4f7bdbfc81aa75286d0e99b SHA-256: b368930f5db55848832984f34fd04f1704612514018a95cd60bb5fe61bf787fb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs further support the link farm and potential phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 6

  • 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 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://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b7666dcb56---muvebisotemen.pdf
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l53uea5hcnddf6t1m7ed2o05gp/suxus.pdf
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f241a8771---71958897295.pdf
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872070efcf3---22015216774.pdf
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/388c432d3932c0f494c61f12f5f1eaf2/mizajineli.pdf
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b3bb6f131---wigemenizaviwixuzi.pdf
    • http://ithaca1966.com/clients/8/85/85e9e0a76fddb83d7689cebc6ab07fae/File/85940992917.pdf
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7f2db8c8f9---muvule.pdf
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c08f2b1d08567d81829c5c465ce3d377/27750922876.pdf
    • http://sylvianapoles.com/clients/e/e6/e63d90d46a840f0b3195f531cec11f6e/File/nidupu.pdf
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0fe5cd67de---pubixobanawisewemetujagon.pdf
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/juxuxoxule.pdf
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d982eecd3e555db1f40a02ed7e0f19e/nelow.pdf
    • https://unibel.pl/pliki/upload/file/vuvov.pdf
    • https://iringmalaysia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92153044358.pdf
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbdf4d28d101e59ce85d9adcc79fddb6/29090496492.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=i+just+wanna+be+someone+to+somebody
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f07d.bin
30a46575eee6a174b8111b6996d18ac7bb7541ecc9b5a38a64e4b295aaddbcbd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF07D 16616 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011b41.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B41 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013358.bin
5196b67d5256b9ae05b885782d117f2ed7f1702d546ac205de2cf8d19df28dfd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13358 10692 bytes