Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b83192934c1e2cea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-07-08 01:05:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 8b939d8539eb62d52594ff399a9cba71 SHA-1: 89f0acb448988b254323fc8a56f577a2073e792d SHA-256: b83192934c1e2ceaf6f59031bc4914a340c6818a115a8b29d8d734881cbe6557
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the 'utm_term_redirector=True' flag suggest an attempt to obscure the final destination and potentially track user interactions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 http://beloit1962.com/clients/8/83/8368a4f838dea3176655029ae9e337da/File/biworogorugijadidad.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/748a76de0fc89e050e153f7e57e0c298/gatelep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf03db12cc3f83f1de7a90c2118cf205/63050741515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aed20502a6720922d9d568a7572ff33d/sopon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/39956485168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/644b2f13a1473866b7c894c85fa4572e/piram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texasstatealphaxialumnae.com/clients/f/fe/fe72632f573fdc77cca6b85875c63e8a/File/zewawigiximireveginoget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vae0j7drq3rqkdk28aak4c6lt2/kebefusebogonujazoseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f36c79487---21212586391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609913a05260d---5012602982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/67233918900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://av-jet.ru/userfiles/file/5803021729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085cdce8d9f4---loxuwugotokizadejasij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoteam.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99906749384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///vogulowupowena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083019244ba1---11176598723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/240720542915ab13dd345dd6202499e7/26293890976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4019e849111c6c061c3bf45ca58d39d/52924185414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b4086d87a---97571294552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stmarys-perthamboy.com/upload/File/mupurokim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b784a844dc4f2bea25af69d6affe7ac1/41556448121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1121bdebf277961b88920ef961a24ba/95808527686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815a3e7c329---63297671914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076cadc8b427---35793883935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=narcissistic+meaning+in+bengaliPDF 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_off0000c048.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC048 18244 bytes
SHA-256: 3febaada52b37fb5afa5f10ea822c810edaddfe910b01ac19b9afe665de62fe2
font_01_sfnt_off0000efde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFDE 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 67dc5f8a41c00725215caa2575cf37cbe0d7843c83daf8cb913a6ea40ce514e2
font_02_sfnt_off000107fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107FB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1