Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b772b3b8b8462981…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 10:51:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 6843d4cf3983e9ae1abbe4cba8a44088 SHA-1: 7758d1f51b3471a8517999b14bad3aad7ccd9f9d SHA-256: b772b3b8b8462981ee1b57042894a5b885ce32d075cfa2220345e0cede75b4d2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of multiple links on compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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 http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bf828e1c9c---31097000968.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2jhmcs9mj9snv0gpn1scsdrq4f/63709576588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bnbtravels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zepawulogop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komputerzagrosze.pl/userfiles/file/dibijofelavenupezuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tele-fonika.pl/upload/file/84341687486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bronia.org/userfiles/file/fasas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stolizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/30833326906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcfkenzi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20983044551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9817b51db9---maporeramumapix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c46f37eec69f460720931339c5ef9750/luviro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagamimpi.net/contents//files/63552290136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51fa6c10d57dc25eedeb8c9fd820d2de/26100929124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb66c83151b9d9f489c3c94a407f8611/33994869308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/56379618274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cmi2byac9cdhd0hra6d7bxkwbgj1gch.com/user_img/files/vopuxutuvepiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adilaltinsoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160743da716679---lixatawumebuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9a7e19aa085995925422f4d74a7632b/84020569692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ci4njpk98013usaflh3ts8uc96/67132152258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eq5ggcqjbpincgfmbnpvh3jho6/43927855519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromowane.com/userfiles/file/zepabojikexafonitave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a48143d6f94---51176678292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=charge+off+vs+cancellation+of+debtPDF 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_off0000ec80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC80 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010497.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10497 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 5497f4c8459753e0d53356b84ac1ba0d360930e09510520bfa0107ef4c1e2676
font_02_sfnt_off00011de7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DE7 20396 bytes
SHA-256: 8fb8d295a33e6be8a0b3072b16867fc456eb0b0f17315fb4dc81e8128d01e615