Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b835057382ef156c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-06-19 17:07:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0749546950e07e845b4a6ddf35d30878 SHA-1: 15a52b58c6020abdf5f87ecf7d48e9ace2c9c6dc SHA-256: b835057382ef156c660ef6416d159a4af3edd7e83ec167740a9194bfd67a33df
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a link farm on compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848624a8ad5---33509312749.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/wusezojapamuvorateduforuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db2bf1840aa7cbb08fe354714a1e55ef/7289967372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voyagerf.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af1f444d8cbe27416d2afa6d7516e880/93514595625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56a393e1eaa220c5c87f1e72919e507c/ninolikenogala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/505c88de180509002b1cce8f7da211bf/vixeveriporujojik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilalyapidekorasyon.com/userfiles/file/kuwometofonuful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aclamerica.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/91619659226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%252Ffile/pulodewizorevumoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fv160hpsne71rmf3f3kd1t4dh3/resaguzawikiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/sufaganisiruzudegituvobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledson.ru/upload_picture/vegudededoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a8a8925945---76344355440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5bfee9f1e---denidufemuxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608347490ea64---nevawagakorujizidefevofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=assoluto+racing+modded+accountPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d993.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD993 5248 bytes
SHA-256: ccbf167be33eda4d1ce31a3a42b8047e681105cb308749f3306983bf3d0cb9f8
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB54 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 4085dd52f2b5e79aec72182e67fb98ebaa7e0f95e15bc3863e818b4b7e2acc20