Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b437ebb7db3ed859…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 18:27:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c38317843e40f725f12225f8a29353ea SHA-1: cd105fd374614e4678b04ec0517baa27d451667c SHA-256: b437ebb7db3ed859a9a77c34ef7a8b4eb671ffb8a2e4c0790de34d80759e493c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, 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 external URIs and link farms points towards a tactic of redirecting users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://www.startservis.sk/novy/ckfinder/userfiles/files/joxetipiteremekolu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0e0865364d---60712731487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iqmuseum.mn/uploads/files/sigiroperukumorimewamamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e756448fd48455febaca6869369c180/jolenewojadunakuxive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petukmahaaaraj.com/userfiles/file/17136233610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d94bb2120d---76283807525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muacash.com/webroot/img/files/88634912889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7kujnc21uenb96utlebbh39bsk/povowunija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sma-dfgg.org/site/admin/file/bevidizuwijilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hausbaumesse.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ridodasurofip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://de-ko-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kifutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kocarbon.vn/luutru/files/24713381963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51stcmvq40femp7d7sap3m2uh0/febuvagufaxisabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatudongsaigon.net/uploads/files/26843261930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjdfszwy.com/filespath/files/20210901115817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pappteam.hu/userfiles/file/kupemepilaxuluferurizinun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b30ae116477---81387746650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/72823438887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mma-montessori.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70637594023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbc447b02b3---tasozare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crabandclaw.com/uploads/files/52787538747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161005e70ec1df---rupawog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdfd9bae2ce---35840040232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kadernictvo-svetlana.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/79929088393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=probability+and+statistics+1+pdf+jkuatPDF 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_off0000f9db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000111f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111F2 11108 bytes
SHA-256: 6b66faad0b8c9f22bc46c1f7814ba9f71305238a994c5a47e514dfc363b58c4f
font_02_sfnt_off00012bcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BCC 19120 bytes
SHA-256: a74e27b8daf72c2f7c4c4d267c0cfb182b5788a6e1077806a5ac840badd11b54