Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7a8bdd9d18a6cc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.8 KB Created: 2021-09-08 03:16:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b79835512ad7272bac2a49bdbc47d8f1 SHA-1: 48ca5ad754e34b970d3cff3ab6fb700e725c0161 SHA-256: b7a8bdd9d18a6cc1340c74d387b159b02273fbead78580e3e6d508a8e02b4b9c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or exploit kits.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=broiler+farming+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://watthaistuttgart.de/userfiles/file/xutof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canphantich.net/Images_upload/files/56998542477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d23817b919dec10a8fe6ff793975ca69/56725082620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8ae0768636244392e82e26d6d04f555/59816041165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608632df2f519---kopuropav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consulcongress.it/uploads/assets/file/28949787589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd6d09353f6---15632518394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/43347192030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://888spirits.com/userfiles/file/54851192555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangdientunhk.com/upload/files/26665872238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbjadow.pl/attachments/file/87320328080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vicotelecom.vn/static/source/images/file/rasuviwekuvadojonaxedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-daily.jp/app/webroot/contents_img/files/ropawelorivusiban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d20d6026a22---40902600171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rickgrisolia.com/userfiles/files/64273652986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8ce0ed58b---79576688434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b56d24eb443---7207606473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asken.as/bilder/file/3532939333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea105d0b1d---24239930442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c1e009a70---87011572438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e9ed133612---kugele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neurooperations.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34008722783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hophamthaibinh.com/upload/files/lotiruzew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rt9.rspo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sawizamudukep.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_off0001071c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1071C 10860 bytes
SHA-256: af90499ccb7db9d45af252c9a5234232b11c5ccbbc88841105cc47a08a793f79
font_01_sfnt_off00011faa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FAA 19132 bytes
SHA-256: a981ad84550e083e5a04056ad1a8423ea9097b3efcb5cfe8fecbc08928787a1b
font_02_sfnt_off00015183.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15183 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1