Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4fb670a836fb57a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 09:45:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 158ab54bdfd6751498ab7819a59140fe SHA-1: b200944708fc9f7a0134a508d17b28bdff4ec37b SHA-256: b4fb670a836fb57a7bdbc576733863ad7f59c9741b636c294def19ab47713aa5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing or trojan distribution mechanism. The file's structure suggests it's designed to act as a link farm, potentially leading users to malicious content or phishing pages.

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 https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c51eec8432c0ff85b32ccc92804d1940/24572387186.pdf
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38359cbf1a8d1995352a865bd18fef06/29454351693.pdf
    • http://bbfederico2.net/userfiles/file/mixilunisanirapudofewopu.pdf
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b29o8ba7jula2ui955f8svj2hb/88909091092.pdf
    • http://serdceprirody.ru/userfiles/file/wepotuguwir.pdf
    • http://orderkai.com/uploads/files/58313624239.pdf
    • http://bjzjygj.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/37479915273.pdf
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5tik4csekguefuvve2uf3uv6uc/9886974235.pdf
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5215dc31b8508881382f14e0a84b7606/99032754965.pdf
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dd1bc19e88---nagazazewe.pdf
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944a1e56d93---62378201534.pdf
    • http://zkojicin.cz/userfiles/file/56890956307.pdf
    • http://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/83857574865.pdf
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a914740a90d---dawefiw.pdf
    • http://terezmisszio.eu/files/file/50235248623.pdf
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4548f0e4aea97784c0104b3c29b7d859/zanutanu.pdf
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ouab8j4spnnaaeu1odg7j9jga7/padiruboge.pdf
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804c83c7330---35954593533.pdf
    • https://fablab808.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/lunelikuvaxezebenifopap.pdf
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7sd436p98u5f026hehp99fvm01/47401277212.pdf
    • http://maskaevlawyer.ru/userfiles/file/buronurelibos.pdf
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb0c10bf9c1---furopa.pdf
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094997d46296---91390966350.pdf
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h8n8g76ehu2eerssc07v4kho01/woxusazadolubowilivaxor.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=what+type+of+pronoun+is+it
    • 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_off0000eb64.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB64 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001037b.bin
41e4d1156c5046945248c8418b78ddb9d738b8e8a484ad92d5459aa077fab668
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1037B 10616 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011bc4.bin
aee8ec5072132a397e49b8b2042980ef36fa075533ff56bae3602aa9e62e1cb9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BC4 16532 bytes