Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9b14cf4ee77aa64…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-07-02 20:03:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 0da3882750e85cb59a56635b992e9d0d SHA-1: 01f59ff593a61cdc23d98db4a547490469ce8c2c SHA-256: b9b14cf4ee77aa64dbb2ecfe31d6349d97e45f942910a36461e0158f592d6d0d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF structure itself is also noted as having duplicate object bodies, which can be used for obfuscation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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=song+how+great+thou+art+by+alan+jackson PDF link annotation
    • https://roofmed.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbd144e2f45---16365666015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8849kak2bfsq125iiklajbg4p3/vazub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1p1l8qul1c3ckut8rrt4obldr4/78918345972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb177baa9068f7d133da64a73973c1d1/xeladavazirawokevaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komputerzagrosze.pl/userfiles/file/87613594302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8dd33a49cc---50129784613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070fb439f54d---66793346867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4784fd6b932ef8d5404426f093adae16/64751466473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dbec08f221---8284493077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d922bf7cfc7---tekanisotiredakixegezajup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da05f6719e56f025b2a9b6a6a21fa1ae/72461969023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58bgu929emg51omiuvnqv6m6g1/jejelagij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asi-filter.pl/files/file/47805057148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c88257b4c64---wofebudisarunadubolekunet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremyco.com/app/webroot/docs/file/mexodetikefokadagarorale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feng-shuiworld.com/userfiles/file/sezefumitelakarot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b6074e3adc---22346744140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d97a1b3b79---kubiforuguxipebafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23f6747e6c8d6fc69c76359b2f1b8466/fogulapolukedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609167a04404f---69793722263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/039f2338c5e2d0d6b15b1298e1317b89/vifeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a349f027147---22515774241.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_off0000cae6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAE6 16172 bytes
SHA-256: ece13726f21a5a9dbd311ab734c89b7828e0e3bd4e3c7a60f92692ff4cd227cd
font_01_sfnt_off0000f44c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF44C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010c63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C63 11156 bytes
SHA-256: 645a4179310ef863345f3e23a9c157d949d57f10b743dbcd1d5d4d890b0089c6