Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b81ac9af15b4da3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

109.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 02:27:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 855aee49d260d40c8a760910235bb20f SHA-1: 065c2ed90b088052e556debae59d96ed7e0cf1ca SHA-256: b81ac9af15b4da3bf6dbbfeaf2ed3196c8dde05698d498bbc24e19f1a680645f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery via these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://k-souz.com/userfiles/file/pesilifubutewutotexinow.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21b42e43f67d43370f7c2f6e06094819/lezemof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bqb75kttv7da9il0ddro6tasr/32715028549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609be09a9a8c0---97300955309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d65381cb90---61626015200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lamaisonducoeur.ca/upload/editor/file/13520047661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0050bb8e2c---xofebewowikubawodigibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astro2sphere.com/admin/images/file/79110287436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088190e8f4e0---45247491780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae2d1cae0c---93865775892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092f3852fd40---29438516031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leganordavigliana.it/uploads/file/nevekosixex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a366407336---20279852369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cezanart.com/userfiles/file/79594065422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skolicka.eu/foto/images/file/9297130649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sola-brothers.com/userfiles/file/99161490378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viettelhaiphong.me/data/dulieu/files/16207685908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c986d3ab1b---duzeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttmplus.com/userfiles/files/tudanugazugezejidinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9d93c48483---28947854184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hagakure.by/upload/editor/files/xawubuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f2af958dbc---22355766620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a67f1c1e715---76347498489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dh582fh9h3bv7ik829b70l3to0/99993070750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=sentence+with+righteousPDF 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_off00014694.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14694 17764 bytes
SHA-256: 19b7e311b70a15b9573bd218b2bba1e6b2ac1083bde4b9b07a10077d7c10cc13
font_01_sfnt_off0001758b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1758B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00018da2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18DA2 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 7444089677d374e5bbbda92129c2faa6df6489152726b60eee09a0a829b09511