Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f8a221208e0f84f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 20:16:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 830e2844829add80b3dfbc695830c8bb SHA-1: cda1afe225bc9dc2f12fcd046070df17271241b2 SHA-256: 5f8a221208e0f84f930cf27fa2299e355658053e2a34bb7dcd36e44d2e7d6075
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains. The document body is unreadable, suggesting it is not intended for direct user interaction but rather to facilitate malicious redirects.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6eca351b12d15158fab9f85a61d5a52d/saloburiwobakilaboruvi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://3qbuy.com/CKEdit/upload/files/buvamovepebagowid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulrike-mayer.de/userfiles/files/vetawiwasolibirarido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anfauglir.com/images/file/fekovomapirugeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lndmc6qddj6a5t17kto8p7cbg8/minuforusogigizogowobuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/153428ae20ec404957eaccc382bd3ef4/41785581897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a96276701---fokedofixodivoxalopuxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/355d190f1b4a22db0c6d2aa92cdeee7f/doziveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakoca.hu/files/file/musetonox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86389c71e1513090af70ed48d9ec4886/80005421843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607006bfd9da0---suximebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinproval.it/userfiles/files/manibisinegerumudolapepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gastrotest.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zowiviponaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/limume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibangnhadat.com/uploads/files/33204259961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6i6fp3ihmclbumfqefpobrsu0i/sipibagudenid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b09a290c5d1ad2c9950fbe99cbd3c291/walojuletibuwopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fokusmedia.com/images/uploads/wekepakomebusuvavivufubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bora.su/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8765631224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-3/20210503045812857875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavalnerina.it/userfiles/file/85811164887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/382627c455a595eb3d8335727eb7dea8/62353093590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c08dcd512d6661c90aabc7a14b99dc00/wenuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/573368ea33ede086fe730771f979a07e/jebagivabegezalosugowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=inflammation+of+the+peritoneal+cavity+is+calledPDF 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_off0000ee9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE9B 16244 bytes
SHA-256: 0bb5ecd41755c320b015c982ebdf09d67783b65aa55bb515220a015435abc3c3
font_01_sfnt_off00011842.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11842 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 9b15f1af1d029cd747ade38f92d2bdce84567659a70d449eba5b14899c5c25b3
font_02_sfnt_off000131ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1