Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b749d431235f59ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-08-23 17:32:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 658f034239d341b748cd8d467ad91aea SHA-1: 9325cd3b7a97bd4c07b8bab4b3af72ec71dd9cb1 SHA-256: b749d431235f59ce6a639d2b7e6c86ceff589049543dc7ed80e0cc0f60c3c39b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan by ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to direct users to malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=adjective+collocations+list PDF link annotation
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c09db736c73---56415273271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/jakefakusudewenerevefed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovospm.cz/fotky/file/mijasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9648570feb---vajemer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gj90rq9shkms1vf0j6rp53sdl5/lubujeluwelena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/86853813786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muslimofwestbengal.com/mwb/editor_upload/files/87716859882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tzounakos-insurance.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zidagaviman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://francoisdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47430368459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4seasonstours.in/userfiles/file/jiwimozepobonaxedoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfavit.tv/userfiles/file/32019166519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0091d861fd---rurapevazuxomelavana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyotiacademicpress.org/uploads/file/wixovulujiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pertq127dhui1r8plmvlu8q7be/33583197291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.terresdescaraibes.fr/file/11809216201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7b9be65602---27819884321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cae0fd6d16c---fulejunariluralubiwuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4b5ac12c04---14195324024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9g588m2jvh6kqu06qvbsa0iuc3/papepuxapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160757a3429030---93633867482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aca84ea01ad---87023221665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0b98409a8---56711565858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077bc6c4a8df---75876828864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df78b383db3---xulopafawigubeweniloxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d91f8cd110d---94302624338.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_off0000e21d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE21D 10440 bytes
SHA-256: d1e501f16a1ea6f590f5e509af806d92d9a24649761041f0b38399e9417bc82c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9E2 16612 bytes
SHA-256: 8299c920aff7849ddc5e464d045e714fd16631ee137c38fd9243bb88d20ab80d
font_02_sfnt_off000124cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1