Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7ffdbf123f86e85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 02:55:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 4beca1a2c5d434b2a3ac429ac7d73055 SHA-1: ee2480cc75711a0f24438f4839793726b8f71dd7 SHA-256: b7ffdbf123f86e85a99bc9c721e7575b8835cef3a04328e5bbcb1049ae29730b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=any+router+admin+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607030919064e---bokowuronum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oncetrabzon.com/resimler/files/36508965507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc85d7ea165---nopaxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infoenergie-loire.org/userfiles/file/bababikosobimat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed285be0c845ed05fcc331a419a66054/jurobonikasufov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4cfab17555---padadunajezorakozas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limitlessillusion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cd8a859a479e7e5c286d2edb5ac12ee/22013256757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph2020.org/FCKeditor/file/lemutawowagifamoloruvag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podlahypilat.cz/admin/file/43568249035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a34c29ce91f---84644988815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optikametuje.cz/userfiles/file/70703172834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8d94089ca---83986807463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098ac823c288---xurugolubemarobuzigeluduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f5f63014d---63684172990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkbflooringusa.com/userfile/abbey/file/zulubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-6/20210506182042420420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattingtoemrerogsnedker.dk/userfiles/file/16368686429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098411f0f69f---lurejubunezupuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae37c3081c6---18342203312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c48cd04441---durop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08c105ca4d195ad4ccfb6a94fca79fb4/52417659704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40025ef601967b0727eaf2061038c01b/pezizebodezimozudaki.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e5b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5B5 17132 bytes
SHA-256: 493a8d593e32dee5dad02a56fe3badef0332c7bd76399604269bc2063477a9ab
font_01_sfnt_off000112eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112EB 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 90450b2db8c43675b337f229f502ab366ba3f4cd0086fa98a2fbf588d584ad39
font_02_sfnt_off00012b42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B42 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00014353.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14353 16276 bytes
SHA-256: 98aff72f982070a5baa77e7b7d9d202cd92db0f7bde72b24465478209f81d015