Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b820cf44fa0da97f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 12:59:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 6887395e5cdd29836d9b3448564c25e1 SHA-1: 5c20033c8a724ca006e869012d75f9eead6f1903 SHA-256: b820cf44fa0da97f6ab51467f568314b73de39e6793f8dd8de4b66e8059586e4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics strongly suggests a malicious intent to lure users to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://kolaykanal.com/userfiles/files/40124590370.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://energo-winstal.pl/userfiles/file/wikulerowiwiwobazunenimas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greddy.com/admin/common/ckfinder/userfiles/File/nipaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thongthien.vn/upload/files/44870454848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wych123.com/upload/files/38592783835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macauroommate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32222271471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjgjqmr.com/v15/Upload/file/20219151933413668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cd25bd4f22ad28f2947c85a9484d16e/4247478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e15210991472aa1b242dce5220895cf/bodilekabusutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gr-chem.com/upload/files/31793377801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3bbb.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/78641465136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://la-klamm.org/userfiles/file/wuzedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140fe928744a---xubedomuzazozatifakejoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a8a98ea74c---38092689557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143fd717ae3d---paguwezifazezobipozuzuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://derya.afmiletisimajansi.info/resimler/files/58577421086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restaurant-lyons.fr/userfiles/file/62170899555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalfeedindustry.com/upload/files/nusegew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evpltravel.com/xv_image/file/58920504180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bd365dd66f---jutilisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumahbaruku.com/contents/files/60953813762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aukuras.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tunotazuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eqletstalk.com/uploads/files/202109170131251608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f9e0397d21---zolasomajuxego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimumnieruchomosci.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/venafibegusogebumigogav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=wifi+direct+share+filesPDF 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_off0000f966.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF966 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001117d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1117D 10344 bytes
SHA-256: 0f39c0404b8740b4aaaa5def78247e161e760704d7bd4c6a7d43e5f31de08271
font_02_sfnt_off000128eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128EB 17532 bytes
SHA-256: 860a9512c773bd097780167f16382552578d7775eb60510b9281a13fd7df1876