Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b830bcfa464b8023…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-06-30 09:00:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 545a7681f63025fbd9df23b105ede623 SHA-1: 4d48d5e78ca59e2330eafe3b452860137f25ca6f SHA-256: b830bcfa464b8023105ddc29b679d8dfe8e93238e3bedd815c317a1ee798bc47
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a link farm to obscure the final malicious destination. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it's not intended for user interaction but rather to host malicious links.

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://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64a02ca590db23a4a5123fe173927d7b/22206312093.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9293fb1177---49781000815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606caa1a8b7d6---murivujik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12a6e53ab25e3c2282c65a1fbf061ea9/vokajukenip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringnederland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jidemaporebopinog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondasushi.com/uploads/files/xurorexege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l28reuj064utrl4fk5vid79lv0/16631054588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949bdeb41c3---92186699499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5890e22335fdf1e70ced7b9b02f2a59b/94782293008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/694eb2e555e765c60e473532266d1f00/sinumiramizeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b86bbb1188---xomevaziwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agentcctv.com/userfiles/file/ribumajejamutitozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bed275fda9---tenedofaxufatonol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720f3dc716e---mizupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b3e324c45d---36706880876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/wofarunujibiwolofesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9c4881669dfbf928489f7140db6a891/73696417604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609447e16d6b4---61148146412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099a5554497d---vaxagidobevutiden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160845407d03d4---75226589386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/kagaxuzuzenitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kis-u.com/page_data/file/20210624081536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b3004916b2---jazizexafiwexapibenulitug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://porterbrothersltd.com/app/webroot/uploads/ronegozax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funperm.ru/content/file/naluwipeguribase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=we+only+miss+the+sun+when+it+starts+to+snowPDF 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_off0000dd9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD9C 19584 bytes
SHA-256: 44e6ddb211c36a54ec4f3ea1966b0f93d0d491aac688fe455fc376af5ee0a506
font_01_sfnt_off00010f26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F26 10664 bytes
SHA-256: b4297a75cfa46120c77e665c968f85eb74bb23070d524a64fa0fcb6250e0d639
font_02_sfnt_off00012778.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12778 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1