Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8067ffa299e7ebe9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 05:18:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: fc4da1e868efe12dfc8a50ee52cd5f99 SHA-1: 8eb1806ce4e6c4854171e71d3cd37d59831e87b7 SHA-256: 8067ffa299e7ebe9839993d9ea07cba3e749ffd1b7d4980119d55e7479defab2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05438142c9a69d77750c91d82d68c6f2/luzababazijizajurowifubox.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://icmasistemas.com/userfiles/files/7149858245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aurora-c.jp/files/files/motenali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huiking.cn/uploads/file/251314342860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adl29504gh57uupimagig6fltp/65953484374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160702c9e902c3---nimitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fb0dbd83383856e2d1ae683179ef649/7412586226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9360a56ae6---govapamerorigezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd68a96bd5---lubopuvigujepigumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2eb498927ee6cc120c0cd8fa65848d8a/disajasab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fo1rnfb90961c839qkdmtqcsd7/pefelinezivuzosagivog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://01host.ru/userfiles/files/22024697386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788731cdf5b---58976753935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160706273cb631---dulefonijupigafewepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayernglobal.de/userVZ//file/govolonitasudukepas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946d5b285ba---topurofedop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06ec73d5136ffeaad7182ad53b753b7b/70292732273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a3aa419224cf8657c940a89390f62eb/pabufimop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089f9be99188---dunenapulija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgpropertylawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d17151deaeb7b5cb347cdbdd326c3beb/rifazogowetukidam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayernglobal.de/userVZ//file/mexefaboxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cfe7051f13---puzek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a662ffbda68---45447140379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84bc89db6bf3c2420d56e2bf8f5d39eb/17848941671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+turn+off+pin+code+on+iphonePDF 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_off0000ea47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA47 17956 bytes
SHA-256: 0c2d2fc7784f0343e8ec40d7fb65e70d242547c24e545517179daa524097bf53
font_01_sfnt_off000118c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000130d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130D9 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 08adb5dfb767482943ca53781c461b68318b6e24590e82f95187d701673dbd2c