Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8185d6333fa8e6b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-07-04 07:43:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 1c46ca5587dbfa5ebf567de6601dca2c SHA-1: e788defc7adf43e3bde91c037521a0a0f43e804d SHA-256: 8185d6333fa8e6b2b2427668d10c9e3e7e5ef16a53b055d4c90ad306dab28c21
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple external websites, with several links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or phishing sites. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of specific user-facing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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.biotanika.pl/upload/file/53184303294.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/kuzizirajopirefegoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759c6ac1f51---63519086280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retta-bg.com/userfiles/naxemidifise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j93spcqpsq80mt8884ll4fqfp0/wedulumabus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9f6a48f0a3---dezeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9e212e11b8---15702495679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacyltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d95698d54598e803698f48be40cb80db/sugobowalera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c91888bf29d---jorukakifigide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wmhsclassof1977.com/clients/34196/File/92105420941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilltop1976.com/clients/24685/File/bapapevod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/598cee6e51fa884b0d92d8a42a49ccac/betumutinemopon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipic.vn/userfiles/file/15377339520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bufolari.com/public/immagini/file/32916312279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itssilvertime.com/clients/2/24/24efe347a73a8ce028152bf895bc11a7/File/nojinoveburi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad0a4052040c64423fac23348bf4ae9c/66722150699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bce75ad4e2b9e23a1a152c1582952c7a/bosujakuguvipeloxega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leavereview.com/customerinterview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57429615213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjcfurnituremaker.com/userfiles/files/wotafodikezapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0ed780b190---vededesubevugobela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlovehuahin.com/file_media/file_image/file/duxomatutafinawesisexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yournamebadges.com/withyourdog/cms_uploads/file/mixeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulf-rope.com/images/bulk_images/files/pivazuxaxuwafuximufesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=running+3+miles+a+day+before+and+afterPDF 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_off0000f623.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF623 17744 bytes
SHA-256: 2d1525ae7dcf805be25157127e4a8ab26087d8fbecfd4ec7e0cc388d46b957d6
font_01_sfnt_off0001239a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1239A 11268 bytes
SHA-256: 66b3b57afb4a7b1a7d091ef1094d4fecf9a67f9cf0a4977368e560dad794c96d
font_02_sfnt_off00013de1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DE1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1