Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9c3c7678a3c8698…

MALICIOUS

PDF

109.1 KB Created: 2021-08-19 23:45:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: c07e7f5a18acdd0004372461643a4c54 SHA-1: c20b1250755fc5c6c8c4ebe066fbf5f1f7c52dd4 SHA-256: b9c3c7678a3c869852fd16974bad61808271d2069c0144fd8051336fd811baf3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple compromised websites, identified by heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM'. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns suggest a malicious document designed to lure users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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 http://jiangsutravel.kr/userfiles/files/20210620_034634.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39vmfgicoratbgbpf4nu8hpm38/8474572098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/kimeniwonil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b591e8959c---gisepego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edd2cec04e76d0b63a7476eb5b18a343/68015883155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rnralpha.cz/res/file/17986589470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3c526a3cbb---wojoladojexesamosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minegociomiweb.com/userfiles/file/salozozigulepabukifaboti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://connect-senior.ch/uploades/userfiles/file/refonisejogaxopanazofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd654fb32a6---7508185845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocb-ap.org/file_media/file_image/file/96302513306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16114ef8e43047---17094085085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/jezixuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074f919cec3d---nemebevosugiduwavixido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbuyfromindia.com/userfiles/file/1330372841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://change4best.ru/upload/file/37819997250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenstatues.com/uplds/file/1872526796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mashura.co/userfiles/files/28712480904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087c7e529753---mixoravaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cincia.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18803482297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qcgrq8le23el81a515g9bofsfe/85402963176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hobbes-group.com/upload/files/vunejodori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aadb961a27---37661291305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huijingweb.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-13/20210713223524838275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=is+there+a+land+of+stories+book+7PDF link annotation
    • 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_off00014841.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14841 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 07676d3775fe3eb5a9fe478b801c887fcc8464e93b4739f3a720bc6f52ccfe2a
font_01_sfnt_off000160b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x160B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000178ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x178CA 17112 bytes
SHA-256: d2e57efeeb4556b03ba3cb35253042877fdc9ec0505c54fc74bb7aedea06c821