Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b64ba80c3ab9cc53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 00:47:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 7168389001151ca9a292bc8375abf99c SHA-1: 6f46eb35ebdf8f668279d2a9de2ef3d8f5e54e24 SHA-256: b64ba80c3ab9cc537ccba7a0aaabc4f22107c885e2f48167542c1d9f1e3b22de
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier flagged it with high confidence. Several heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting it is used to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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 http://apexnepaltravel.com/userfiles/file/zeponij.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cn-polylysine.com/d/files/78409773292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dainindo.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/tevona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandiassociati.it/userfiles/file/rajetubedosatajudise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ski-valloire.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33415709515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rannatennis.ee/data/upfiles/files/80784541915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ks43jbkknneifmkm7eg0bmnsg/95524806481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotravenzolo.it/userfiles/files/vewenunepojajexuxipufox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/791471a78f9251a029ff467df0242b08/99551164828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://health-bridge.in/upload/file/nizab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccb4817a38---20928563669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sukienmiennam.com/userupload/files/fotedesozonilamadone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukmalayalamnews.com/userfiles/file/37325579832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tipresentoio.it/images/file/boboputaziwopukajide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malir-naterac.info/UserFiles/File/jixavosetibemurova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenthelong.net/userfiles/files/jenolajagevedanofaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n0sa4iho5d49a61i353l9u5i2f/salus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efficientinfocomm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rasapuperemozojuviju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chono.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/fozemumafovizezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1utilaje.ro/mm/file/gedelerokakudopufer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahzycw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-9/20210809064922759064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7gigf4p58to7b7icce061ff932/56263012897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasdeu.md/data/userfiles/files/liwuzonozubufigavumipat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chingchia.com/uploads/files/202108271932453679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/lukajigomunijumadujaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://questyme.com/userfiles/file/kejanodogenogamebemig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=plant+pathology+laboratory+equipments+and+their+uses+pdfPDF 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_off0000e470.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE470 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC87 11448 bytes
SHA-256: 55eb026d62f955a01b162cbc0518416917bb39d493020f3d917d5ceb226c4b28
font_02_sfnt_off000116a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116A7 16876 bytes
SHA-256: 54d607ddf874dcaca4af52310a9f41f3512d945a45c0b9babb25f566ce6f6d39