Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7b9def66b1819d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.0 KB Created: 2021-07-05 15:18:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 5f4f24017f9bf8964419f521e5e74576 SHA-1: b598ca562a98e91bf8afd8a195795941b3cb2ea8 SHA-256: b7b9def66b1819d60ec0254369b074f880647bb5989e4529d4a60ad1c3d43fbc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected 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 potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, which is a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests this document is designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=piano+notes+for+tamil+christian+songs+in+letters PDF link annotation
    • http://permanentnimakeup-brno.cz/userfiles/files/90400567705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akpanlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jedunotajuwarirulidirog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6c6953171d---bidoxudalurovaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160774347b757d---tezuwanaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tempegaring.com/contents//files/97989811437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6v38mp8122d1rltdoh0tl46k7c/5443393068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607732b0a101c---32295146954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40b1f6a07d26f7bc946d95a71b4a8a23/89232659946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aodaibooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210612_93993E8D261A535F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leosservices.com/userfiles/file/23903077154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmkonsult.cz/userfiles/file/46055068049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://screen.by/images/file/75445822984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160743597c91d5---75050758459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb6f5597d5dc9141bf2b4ecdeb3f273c/lipag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160763db0df71c---19601732359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tekstilkentrehber.com/upload/ckfinder/files/fekisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ed2e9f1d6---15318770387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chronicles.ae/userfiles/files/jiwonulesemule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u7havgs3vd98hn0sfa4esl0rga/marorinixenasuguxibubudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ce20bfddb1257b7355ed0855ee1d011/45166750740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1d0083b44---28244276491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608836275c006---43651295859.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_off00010602.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10602 19220 bytes
SHA-256: 205dc07ad707e7a2d666ec175396357ea9bace19e5c4e6dd80a41d0a41f6dd6d
font_01_sfnt_off00013843.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13843 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001505a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1505A 10784 bytes
SHA-256: eebe2d1099f8013f4efbd346ee5d8c5cd03609ff681d69cfc4103fa9deb1cc2e