Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b75baf30c7b00d8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-05-01 11:00:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: cbdbb9244b9e4891e11c89369bfabcbd SHA-1: afee116f370ca36e0c2b2f9027b00cf7167b5031 SHA-256: b75baf30c7b00d8e1e72958b38a9464e7d51f975428342cc804e3f608660353b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's used to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it's a PDF generated by wkhtmltopdf, likely as a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608475f545680---lakazuvelulifevudunu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/316fd3c8a923286bdb1948c8c2c55ea6/jigakimolijogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607592581faac---57664314082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d5e991f33f64327bf95e3fd031db4ec/62438317073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c28422c785---3102011607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5f71c2bd3659b8b60bd1f8d897c5cf4/11691529142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/200dc77fab9e90acb372915e9fe418cd/76349744115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e055dec6337f78ab30eae8cb582a00f/xufasikigojamafovumusori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c90b00c409---jijivesut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/mapobenomapofusota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607756a92897a---seguli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmobilewebsite.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02983cb429d3fddee350fc6e1dbf6311/gapedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3f0ff2b20afc9b44ce98aad5ad7a57e/digopoduwozejuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/siwikidofavalepofup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed48add6c38491859ebb61b23a56e572/vifalerolebisanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=cesky+krumlov+tourist+informationPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000df91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF91 5044 bytes
SHA-256: 96128717d78e7c46594098552970be1df4122d36d2dfabaa664cf3182b9cdca9
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0B0 11152 bytes
SHA-256: 5f308f9b6038b20ea7bceba80b9360d0c0a6dfe6ce6859166c8d355acd773c7e