Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 808b703aff477223…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.2 KB Created: 2021-10-01 05:23:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 836a51af51b9bf7ed517ecbcdd35fdd3 SHA-1: 65f9c983bd4c76d714b19058c205ac7af9a5b1e8 SHA-256: 808b703aff477223cd31e97178272261ded83cfab90e5338b427102d3f9ada5e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the document being a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, designed to obscure the true destination of the links. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, are part of a pattern often used for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/midolefaka.pdf
    • https://gs-hemeringen.de/ablage/userfiles/files/birevotazatunodo.pdf
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6lc2lr1knl1o8939g0pg33a7n6/jajupo.pdf
    • https://cepatdaftargroup2.com/contents/files/kupolunopudutilat.pdf
    • http://innotec-industrie.be/userfiles/file/56308406981.pdf
    • https://songhong-thudo.com/img/files/wugitabogezosopojusu.pdf
    • https://mami-m.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/xuruj.pdf
    • https://excore.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13653181656.pdf
    • https://strongpointmarketing.net/userfiles/file/kasinovoraj.pdf
    • http://hublihorse.com/uploads/userfiles/files/95673674632.pdf
    • http://yyfxsw.com/upload/files/68662028918.pdf
    • http://marine-inox.com/i/File/kamuvelitegefokutezu.pdf
    • http://www.thunderesp.com/ckfinder/ckfinder.htmlfiles/rijibixuzotebuwoniwotoj.pdf
    • http://gangwonbnb.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210916_C60EBEF821DED64A.pdf
    • https://lingchuanfloor.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/binupipowudajezasa.pdf
    • http://globalone-mould.com/gbw/fckfiles/20210929105001.pdf
    • http://bestorkate.com/uploads/ckeditor/files/14065050161.pdf
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7567cdf33c12b982c4105e503ad36b36/xufawonofijisak.pdf
    • http://www.iciparis.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vubujif.pdf
    • http://caycanhtuyhien.com/uploads/image/files/kanuvapazivedegofes.pdf
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614adfb136149---39719393076.pdf
    • http://teamwork-poetschke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17001091193.pdf
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4fb5f69a9e20a01c710791237b6e4ab/21224566344.pdf
    • http://vako.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/35542934017.pdf
    • http://idroter.org/userfiles/files/lexeronopuwoj.pdf
    • http://xz-brand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nixizukazafow.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=change+imei+number+in+android
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b63f.bin
98fc806e32f8ea90fb57f059b035b93669527b957e99239fe141e86b36521eb6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB63F 15992 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dec3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEC3 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f6da.bin
0ce9ccebe3bffb76acf35030ebb8195fbe830945376be5e94b492926d2cf1a1b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6DA 10652 bytes