Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6a44b629450413c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-07-30 08:19:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 9c0054fdebf120b081c2da01617d771f SHA-1: 7a7c4a4914af742472ea07eae94bf0bbd19a9871 SHA-256: b6a44b629450413c41bf0fd795ed5e7853deb2758a05d3541f614c6d1cea4525
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://zuestag.ch/userfiles/files/jozegazebopipubemo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b458942c2---72760949058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1db06c89c47846d8eb28f3dffbb4b89f/87533930722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee70f85945a---katajul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dianthusindustrial.com/resimler/files/kekagoviguzabibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097442e2b2e9---86178453433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pantryscan.com/123cars/imagefck/file/fibudixoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075dd2d8739d---49257901852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://club-sports.net/uploads/products/files/jerurarodabip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cctechlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/95270773782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terlickodds.cz/www/www/fckphotos/file/rukubegejogalalonominix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608701af7299b---gamevemigereros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q54ukjleum8ij5qume6d1gl490/77677431250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab1f6fb5407---depol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c870312c4d8---vifepusowutigob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef7579544eb68d93a76336e22efe2abd/94288701396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqs-group.it/userfiles/files/27220056631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077104f7bfb9---41416454823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c882f89b0c8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_students/files/xupagugeloronokesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur4.com/contents//files/kugixawaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fc80343c22---83711284778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bacvietexpress.com/upload/userfiles/files/97685395201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hosvagyok.hu/userfiles/file/zidusevupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentherapia.hu/files/file/basowezezemakakelumiwenar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160976426568b1---5070300219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlytech-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/wabuwoxixojese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbmint.com/userfiles/file/82869612865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=which+smart+bulb+is+bestPDF 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_off0000f58c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF58C 16712 bytes
SHA-256: 30b725d71b2f85be68656d65f9c6ff0c4992f2f98c8e9f9d2d12e8f7606662e7
font_01_sfnt_off000120fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120FA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013911.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13911 10504 bytes
SHA-256: f9b8563d2948c24cfdca90bd3ab5c96b4925ef8f978d53d3a3e270fb618753a2