Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b616d48c4f229bd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-09-13 13:26:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 13e743391bb2817a7d3c0396bb143ba9 SHA-1: 806fd5b723cd89d87f8be75ff14abf722a929022 SHA-256: b616d48c4f229bd5b1b1250897ac6faa24ab4971759ed5b458cfab70e77caf79
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, including a WordPress upload directory. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The embedded URLs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic confirm the nature of the document as a lure to external, potentially malicious, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://anapro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90430030043.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ae976d29b2---45921744132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horgaszvelem.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jajegaziforiboju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulk-supplies.com/userfiles/files/98942859575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mudrberanova.cz/userfiles/file/33664716334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skiclubraonbaccarat.fr/pdf/niwegimezanoxawisarodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cliniquemyo.com/userfiles/file/65010170723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161371a5258eab---28656994410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://momsystem.ru/public/file/dumemitinovuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-hematologica.pl/users/file/bipekegun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsijiqing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2021/0907/75c205de80c66ed0f4e4bb4978de967d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arabic.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wevigokezufeselimenuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trust-law-firm.com/userfiles/file/20210906195521_1543581290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b2e9c597cdb221f36054ea596ad67af/bijarogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dailyhondaotomientay.com/upload/files/xorifinevop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a0d3ef35591266ca636d08c41471971/34128154730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scbczy.cn/up_files/file/20210911_002101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vatlieulamnha.com/media/ftp/file/63606957510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161342703a1604---46619369323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bastola.org/userfiles/file/gadefopuwomirilukimovewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=real+x+ray+apps+for+androidPDF 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_off0000ee55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE55 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 36ef613f828940d00d5a09e88ffca2fc368805823daf0820dd48a06d5935ec2e
font_01_sfnt_off000106d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106D9 18256 bytes
SHA-256: f621633c458120e67dc6630fd9c9925f009fa75ee28f722fe6ed03a844f3a68d
font_02_sfnt_off0001362e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1362E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1