Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b08d0de33270494…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-06-19 14:06:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 79cfc5847e97f4c59c29b6240d241d0d SHA-1: 0b5e24b6547859a7664902fb9eb6c2fe6a2554c2 SHA-256: 2b08d0de332704940caacdf8c27707620f6ee81884e61af9ddc76e7e0078d9d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, many of which are hosting other PDF files, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of 'download hysys 8.0 full crack' in the document body strongly indicates a phishing or scam attempt to trick users into downloading potentially malicious software. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/510f5d7a894436295bcf25fc8a1eadeb/63885940485.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m4j4tna3akm8jr443h6bh2stto/zabofixadatetuvojeberig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sb2kf1oqf9vcrthmj6uo89prne/54648770185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t5ni8lgepcnnohkfnrk7b08ur6/6786855437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/49672084564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qrssc6cq6runs5q9p64fm69216/17567364754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609358dfdeccd---55171336743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetraeng.it/userfiles/files/14697968921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098434aeee52---tiramoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d9af1bbce1b773d8d7023f2f85e988d/12843742909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/vanenutopugizon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qnoekml7r0v97ndaelkuem4570/63475355459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbu.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/67000563393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d4ccea4e1---fadipevumofuzowux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filatelianumismaticaumbra.it/userfiles/file/1867123202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d330cc5c04---xogerujefimufesodafezuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f58928cd9c---8203744339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=download+hysys+8.0+full+crackPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000ecfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECFD 5736 bytes
SHA-256: 95cac8aa960d60a042f1324e754c16463ea9b9384e8f60196e1a6505b59b48fe
font_01_sfnt_off000100a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100A0 22468 bytes
SHA-256: a21b5217a08b8512acf1ab6667064e68cb4fb6aab7c39029db08d8af24c5bb07
font_02_sfnt_off00013335.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13335 19464 bytes
SHA-256: 4c4541ce0aec137fddc866b9080aaa3c7aed9c9b60e748f055eebbae1ccbf483