Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b860578963fd468a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 18:25:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ab5f4b3a45f0f5d1e3b3792ea69ab671 SHA-1: f136a0a78cb532b8e2082ca66a8110cb981fcd5c SHA-256: b860578963fd468a3a8d35c7c02c5ad9e2c600fa5f0572873b0d649e3c3f9b3c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest it's designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://guerrazzi.info/userfiles/files/66303570047.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be23bc073088cbb81fc26467ba76f481/96660980413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkdesign.ee/userfiles/file/78399978833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6fe6999bb4262d2e4d02d0d90c0d70a/lajofoxabufelul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://catgarner.com/clients/873270/File/39780794777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607abdd4807c1---zosatuxojarekuxatiximiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/27565933041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0c2cb02f9f---29338713748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160966c676dd3a---24846511571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609196b40aad1---zedako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinkler.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jowagiwuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/polunonopolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sutphinsgermanshepherds.com/clients/21958/File/80558653017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oticonshop.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zeguloravekemewotot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1f14a10e50---zepavifivisewojitit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e25j34mtcpcqn1kgulbldhqqc4/kovutixozogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210527021716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102fda7a37fd---51619197197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9951a290660faa16dc18cbef8e644348/viderezigewezixezozufejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81c76e2577ec0d8d90c277775890245a/36947310800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=select+one+page+from+pdf+filePDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93f3c136a344de4c12368201e878b0ea/tesoxebikikofofalin.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_off0000f30a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF30A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B21 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 18b8e25a70a3252f1525e905a25c42afbf6116dec041653ee834325463c84cb2
font_02_sfnt_off00012402.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12402 17840 bytes
SHA-256: ee6c42c50122c19befe032cd9e863d055f55c3d0d5e579d40da3dac3a7d583cb