Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6f32ef5f94988a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-07-07 03:30:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: e507e99c100e5a705a3c8163659d465b SHA-1: 57d98f9a705601d6521390291a464445d026e63e SHA-256: b6f32ef5f94988a7ae8db031fc5a4f94fa6ae5f8d930efd75f2c51df9a1795bd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a spearphishing attachment used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=3+liters+equals+how+many+cups PDF link annotation
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160878660bc65b---22243373335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/17244642309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clear-es.net/yamituki-n/uploads/files/89534258406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8d70b12af---tejusaxipasuvufoliniroxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0a3c065d075837081ab97ce1889dba1/31333239618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongros.com/userData/board/file/xusameguzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/divopoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/262ff1d0a6ae54273ec5d6c9acefdabc/61550356764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/limilev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptownherndon.com/uploads/files/45976460638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chunmianxian.com/upfolder/e/files/20210619120855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11066569ea2a74c9e596ebb585716c48/18601520055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mytaylormadefamilyusa.com/clients/864113/File/vaseniruvogidibozirutiraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815aa768cb5---35601203765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e5e1a0ac57---gilamixone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16dc052ca0f6ec9f9675b2f82d281436/4610788790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gbnhc1942ifiiskaihuampj655/31160639137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zahnersatz.pl/userfiles/files/5690786123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/2626428992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99cdcddec316f22d4b893ec4a70bb91c/kowapojutakidipus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///62332322398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i6f376qdl9tp17kcnf0gmkpoml/dalupikopovesode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e2e90091d5c7125e8147687d936584a/kigijagabokiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ofipapel.org//ckfinder/userfiles/files/vaxuzijajorokiwajiwevix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eakqshop.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/jijala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e956.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE956 17144 bytes
SHA-256: b8e6401429d39a647ec96b0b9952b1c0e0e178ba43eb668ee7e1eb0d9eb85d49
font_01_sfnt_off000115b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115B4 11160 bytes
SHA-256: 4f648bdbdca6a1a6f2a87ac02be94488b0d20192ef516f6574bde722055d5c3b
font_02_sfnt_off00012fb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FB1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1