Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8012b39b8f386858…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-10-13 22:08:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: b493ef4ae80c1a560763abd091c2c9f7 SHA-1: 42ff4e72817945b5cc6908a54dd87fdb47b19b75 SHA-256: 8012b39b8f386858494cd8758e06b1d685b5d48eec68c3e64f57ff368d5af044
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites, including those hosted on WordPress and other disposable domains. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests the primary goal is to redirect users to potentially malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cattle+dog+drawing PDF link annotation
    • https://honghow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72846625350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e5d39778e6---worefaxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ort168.com/upload/ckeditor/files/89461699731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.net/contents/files/52225862259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.arborvitae.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ravutiravusilodajurabeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designsdubaiukfashion.com/userfiles/file/zimapoxikirere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begemot-rus.com/uploadfiles/file/2021091410045073499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatoodesign.com/userfiles/files/34451105485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanticcompact.org/userfiles/files/puvogija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evo-models.com/uploads/userfiles/files/81537262995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/56545654872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-recycling.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/gejafufuxitelir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelpancharatna.com/assets/userfiles/files/85588860101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://checopharma.com/upload/files/84531647933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tachikawa-derma.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pazewanaramudawulapedeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161412ae400906---63712078280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tattooindex.nl/images/uploads/redunakefewolapowotij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profession-your-dr.com/uploads/files/202110040318553112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalhousieretreat.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/panovida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarm.pl/userfiles/file/xupudazixiduba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f97bf31a06f1f91192114901f6fb5722/92330737369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://underworldgear.com/admin/images/fckImg/file/51240462586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615b1b7a567ba---zazobuvunezojade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615915391fad2---zatefetilunudokib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koparieshorvathbusz.hu/files/file/gugusabidokupipodoxoko.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_off0000d402.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD402 16740 bytes
SHA-256: 405d5db2f3287a802fe9760ae48b0eb00d00afc7686bbc5cbba2cd726a82f6b5
font_01_sfnt_off0000feb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEB8 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 6ca223eb511604e35b2c47a834e36e340825f3a50d8c684c956d973b40d9e667
font_02_sfnt_off00011621.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11621 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1