Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b530013eda1675ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-06-22 14:01:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: afbc9de9b3e7e77ba0a081e4828f74f8 SHA-1: fd9bd5b1918af438e8ddde752b81be1178cb908b SHA-256: b530013eda1675ea2714d99a3ad76ff63eedc63d9afcc11f0d009e11ba5060b5
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain a question intended to trick the user into clicking these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d82a6c37c7---11924165722.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://upchealth.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2228db38bfa1a185b0526c32a82f59de/lebomajetumutokipevigek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t8br042o80j7lej2mphf4bkhh6/suvujugidij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aneri12.eu/res/file/45124202729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j3scl78jjjh97u635efr7ptu14/magukemonosezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns-russia.ru/userfiles/file/91597073324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607208e61b0af---bewanin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natyabio.com/uploadfiles/koxowozulojuzowaxowis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbf655b988feaf8bceccbb3ba470241c/79606119539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuephotocopytaihanoi.com/upload/files/38364299591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b96711eb16---17173098519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a58969e5261---66701869094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/89553533633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160891673cf49a---15543040044.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62bttubsd0h9p0ovpejhk1rbq5/wudiraxusojerito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guclupin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/rukaleruwevakiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c2c305664d044c9e8513a0189ecdaf3/pinabokazesako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+a+polygon+that+has+6+sidesPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000deb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEB0 5392 bytes
SHA-256: d1e1c5f4a39c086cfef22ef6dc3a2c218e58ba5841b79c4458a6be5621da3475
font_01_sfnt_off0000f11e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF11E 10960 bytes
SHA-256: d318f0a2391b0c8f4b735ad0d2baf24096a3b87bd7d935a3a97f044698ad1469