Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b83ac665e2271e55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-09-15 23:51:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 93789982e88f013a30fe85f385e1d72d SHA-1: 648f6b61777880bcaf3cc8886c55fcc37f50e8cf SHA-256: b83ac665e2271e5580b5e54d1654f2448de5b83a6c84f16a34f2c9e108bf2cc9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through these links, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=winner+of+all+indian+idol PDF link annotation
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e4748e69d6---37078284650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heks-tech.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/dosewatonotejekemovudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuaphatlaihoanghuy.com/uploads/files/9009805774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccspatti.org/userfiles/file/denogugopabijabaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcv-bo.org/data/fcv-bo/userfiles/file/51538310310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19oa6m0d64tevn9b1pj8p9mf2g/11389816550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geasit.it/userfiles/files/gaferimariwebelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d753cd90e8ef66decd074551dee8e4d3/72105712783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cet.sk/res/file/monop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140f485d9590---betamoliwago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.beautyvogue.ch/Files/file/zodiwivujagej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kengosushionlineorder.com/uploads/files/xalujuledowepovifapifit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dambi.pl/userfiles/file/24619763332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fd6556f96e---pibaranegemepofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodatkireklamowe.pl/web/uploads/files/mizegilaviweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunil.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/83430491763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bastola.org/userfiles/file/buturisiretu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cornaredo.gattinonimondodivacanze.it/themes/userfiles/files/67456808508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yamamatoen-wanwan.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bupidivexavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41bb4a4e0853429dd21a85ece2b51b8f/13546142613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heatandgas.com/EditorImages/file/vusemadupuwuguvolatepepug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0924055971.com/uploads/files/202109151358507206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wemservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61022535157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coaching-scolaire.net/userfiles/file/58518188169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f204.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF204 10076 bytes
SHA-256: d648f1f6c564b6560d9104d1b49c2949464571f9654711e05b07308a7033c65b
font_01_sfnt_off0001087d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1087D 18020 bytes
SHA-256: d952d9512b02c6ddb86a6f64734e0a8a94d10c261856e647e1ed52373bdcefbb
font_02_sfnt_off0001375a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1375A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1