Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b71baabe732662c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 05:15:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 87b801b81302759477490977f5ae4f96 SHA-1: 8019008ffd160fbe7b901ad61684ffb50a35237e SHA-256: b71baabe732662c9434c87939dff438e1bfff6575ea64c83765e8d7ab28edc1a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to sites hosting further malicious content or phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is indicative of a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0cae8dde50bfdc47824f9010d72853c/35737969216.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ucity69.com/clients/861769/File/2812307198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c863c7b90c2---fugevuzilipelorabosole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scriptdd.com/_file/file/jejurovewesegiraxuxilop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orikon.net/Images_upload/files/27690037787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertoniamministrazione.it/bertoni/public/file/20528826046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4674635d4---sotodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrudolf.com/userfiles/24541380268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d4smontreal.com/clients/f/f5/f58105ca183540932673f5bf18e62671/File/fasidabuwofemuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shippingengineering.com/files/ckeditorothers/95815371677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aite-materials.com/upfiles/file/nujok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrayamed.com/userfiles/file/sebevisijev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52af685f436f1f4899bf73b125c3108f/95772609077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamfieldrental.com/userfiles/file/gopakirol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.electricman.in/demo/frontend/web/uploads/files/39102653537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d0c4ab837---binijidaragirawufifuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travellifeafrica.com/ci/userfiles/files/tuxozitifubala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harekatmemuru.com/images/Media/files/fijezasebawax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/gelen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrarontani.it/userfiles/files/xapuduzovasazuzuwuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpghomerepairs.com/uploads/image/files/linexedumalobiradin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b01acfc147e1b7126ec7b2554b2d9d4/wulepuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=d%26d+cleric+handbook+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_off0000d4a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4A9 9076 bytes
SHA-256: f695977626623e59fedb2fbedebd468d0acf89ff6f6ceafeb3cee4351ddee6c8
font_01_sfnt_off0000e74a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE74A 18524 bytes
SHA-256: 6574adf444a785515a567db9a022ec45d670c540f5568b1e323f6b90573ca543
font_02_sfnt_off0001182f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1182F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1