Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4a08621fd1d11a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-08-11 11:51:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: a7b7d6402178283e3c5aca7eb3d452cd SHA-1: 61dc6d270e773e716b4bd4a7973c86832db73155 SHA-256: b4a08621fd1d11a726d19a9162e9d95c8524e813b4025053d61a84f37bc7931b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a QR code lure heuristic further supports a phishing or redirection-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://hotelmitrutarija.com/uploaded/files/novimaz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160777a2578cb8---fonizeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd7a2977ca8---diwijofabixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e358366f2bc---bulakezujabeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semsaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tememusebibuligox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloverdiamond.com/file/gelarotifazazujeruvil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjjiffy.com/upload/26754937804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b810138a32b---mujike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095314d4fb07---92843691204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d147129e84e8255ee1f315a61c7b952/79048430073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb6d6916b7---78674471219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubest.ru/images/file/47415966613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96f6b911959aef23f82ec458422e8fee/29984240384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/241e304ed8ba4070bb4ec713f9508175/fozikijarejewejis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmercury.com/uploads/files/dadakupikurafefetanil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bean2beenefamilytree.com/clients/60578/File/31596690957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iweldbot.com/ckfinder/pho/files/powofexegujutodir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a89b1f8cbbe---mufedisimufaradi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/38208461622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/19044957140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7058b138e2ede5f4147e6fdf23f0b719/93653925099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///57812539625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+set+up+a+wyze+cam+panPDF 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_off0000edd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDD6 17340 bytes
SHA-256: 9750783e29ea4110e4d0f9295c3cc89e287b45ae264c734dd4ecd7f75ec680da
font_01_sfnt_off00011b69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B69 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013380.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13380 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 42f68e046102b5251c1dc2b9481d89072998ef24d88bdcc85725ea9aca5dc560