Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b928c1805631df29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 01:59:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e22a4efe540d3fc7c87e7b1ccf4c3be8 SHA-1: db9178c6ecd1493b72681eec546c542e1fddf61f SHA-256: b928c1805631df2907da486cd8503db1dd29147f7d569eeef13f790e3ffd9b8a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that function as a link farm, directing users to external websites. Several of these URLs point to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a potential phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 https://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=proverbs+about+work PDF link annotation
    • http://4x4autok.hu/userfiles/files/18252799506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sehersirin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844fc6ad2e3---21571581060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3k3391b1kecr7g505ojbloai3/talarede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingmanplanningdemo.com/userfiles/files/wonum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e489e84b27d1c816b77d4256804fed9/99989542860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfectsextherapy.com/public_html/userfiles/file/62259438543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4e9cb81ae4---11303559848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietthanhstone.com/images/news/file/tovirezuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podereilmontaleo.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/53112038995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160883a9d7ac8f---feganoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alasclub.gr/neuro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/modafemajapupokepafuxuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826fb75a6bf---dugadip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fed89eb721a943dc1e7372674a35fd19/24418498417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62bd42b4a921e468a57291646920a0f1/14292082915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ce4d53756---47185740215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c903a7e18f642724ed5df56ba71dd8d4/18545941306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08d0cdbfa0eef4c1784f633706abdbaf/jomir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domgr11.ru/uploads/files/28795480380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadmoor79.com/clients/864886/File/38241760468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burgaseguros.com/userfiles/file/14326143569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/161002969d66c0---fawitevub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davaocarrental.com/images/file/niwimojugalonuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienlanhtruongson.com/upload/files/nutadizesowivepixo.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_off0000bb60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB60 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d372.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD372 16440 bytes
SHA-256: bfdd29a05f05579619d95c6d50af89c9edc8724e6e72d2b28367c3755570f57b
font_02_sfnt_off0000fdd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDD5 10344 bytes
SHA-256: 9e15d3615171c46b28a5492b70563bc362753ad7f3d6f88cd0724228eecca46b