Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8572ec0f8f87507…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 04:27:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: fdf91498de9249f515a5ab83b854ff6d SHA-1: 9bf37bc34baa1e8425b130a722591b91211900cb SHA-256: b8572ec0f8f875071257f5efdde99fdbcd8586b8470729effd85ba583095076f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links indicates an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad6b8570e8b---visiwofareb.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zoltysnieg.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/74671485505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clarkfamilybuilders.com/home/clark/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42390862243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcmcpropertyblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e2e5098f2a522b3d2094732b6a810c3/70977560914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brahmagnanam.org/fck_uploads/file/9864049164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glearningsolutions.com/userfiles/files/32857860015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latework.cz/soubory/nefebotuvedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://affordableadobe.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vofalejebibunemadoxemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ceb0c4f22d---66508356410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q7qk5t7omqu5hnn3e58d3g1pp8/vemuleragunejixerixixaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wallsfamilyreunion.com/clients/876683/File/nosefidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mottaing.eu/userfiles/files/3357743933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a12985af6d5---63759964820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48qkelm55mmj74e32dhkjaej83/20341555748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/90286616652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubselectionvoyages.com/images/file/rovonejawesabevuver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160839bd078c72---pogewesijoxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c0d240fd004699f3e78e33e72bd93d8/koxukenepenoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/xanigovifuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graficaeformazione.it/userfiles/file/xaravovuturup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artofsurfing.com/preview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bapunejebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31d01d9d7afb970c6682dc915115c062/pixobetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=rtf+format+in+pdf+umwandeln+onlinePDF link annotation
    • https://lapdonline.org/file/35939035803.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_off0000d944.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD944 21452 bytes
SHA-256: 26def848ce88678d9ef1f068bcc55478e7007ca8b3dbae1c2be5e40691a0d121
font_01_sfnt_off00010f7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F7A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012791.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12791 10720 bytes
SHA-256: c0ac824c803ba1665570ad3d7ee1d7876e5c595f3c4b303157c3edbdf951c829