Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b620b65ba0dfac5d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-08-04 14:41:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 4453ee6320246e0c863ebbd756dfa006 SHA-1: 50a43d6c6c189572c61c232c5411bf0813aa3d2a SHA-256: b620b65ba0dfac5d5f9d2ddc787d7c25f4dea0123da9b372452a8b8341443e81
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URLs are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609baff36d23f---45386048059.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jhroseclassof77.com/clients/45984/File/zesepenerojawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangnamjsc.com/upload/files/15357665888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssteelelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/8465896171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/182530414360a3f3f829454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qjhoe6u4ikthhc34qc6h5qv0cd/25902566585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yukkumpulgroup1.com/contents//files/99126345358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heyratacademy.ir/file/gidozapefezag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8388ff0863a345413f00b64fe97059af/tumagexopusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080aebab6579---tugizetuwupulafutoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhuaduongnhapkhauaz.org/upload/files/93102330591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://year-c.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-3/20210603112507983486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089528a32fe3---bafegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b937cd3adb---feweximuwedadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2a4221b55b190cfc46e86f3a858c254/71407403428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/xodogemog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609057101bfd0---33700443224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanidom.pl/img/file/60539728626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brucemsmithlaw.com/clients/e/e2/e252bfde01ef004f685a9648d307a4b9/File/xikizegusifexitepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntc-container.com/upload/files/sajupumojofupogeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artpolinakuzina.ru/pict/file/83642454622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b210d2052---23429013061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=como+convertir+gr+a+litrosPDF 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_off0000e882.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE882 18524 bytes
SHA-256: f5b0c677b2aaf56874ea7f13efd70c4bd0899e4067e73dcc847754e1d0fe658d
font_01_sfnt_off00011795.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11795 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 89f0cd2c35d79f2b24b06b7470155fefd9ff4c2f9806fa1d2999661eb2c670f5
font_02_sfnt_off00013014.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13014 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1