Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8306b6c206769b7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 10:58:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: cbe07463555bfd0e18c4b6a75ae5d40f SHA-1: 19c7f601b83c999171685b2e07329967a6e91556 SHA-256: 8306b6c206769b7de4203f9c0eacea75418555fe2de11e1c36afa79a2f80e126
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely to lure users into phishing scams or malware downloads. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=matlab+simulink+interview+questions+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40fd1df0765ac790dd2123598174edf7/2649214092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/wimadapuvaxagelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/056592652fa0a8de89d034eb6d0e7554/tanenenifevuwib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079514dc20dc---65526795424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicornccc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80504208934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16112ee01c56d5---dopizafafiserimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.css-jp.com/upfile/files/2021/06/24/zefasukesunofoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/734d00121e633ddb2f383f2920e2c467/59342516177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab011beb002---bimemuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202108030537427331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0c8bfb1457---joben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uit07apcp5mag2ffhgvh99dlug/sigosolute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilspa.ro/userfiles/file///fewere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/453cf75dbec9edb690ec334f5b7af343/kuxumufomimanemiwepaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobath.com/app/webroot/img/files/9456895975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aamuhsv-madisonalumni.org/files/files/64878289530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitycare.com/FCK-UserFiles/files/gemewazupipepisakonedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8a697302f544c27d35e408d64a3f5cc/72226278577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19857b66f0a229651127ff17f0863a65/sukodawer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duszek-lasu.pl/userfiles/file/16928000564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160960705c3f01---96108521328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/691536ee247732ef9eaa05fdfb7b97ae/kujovuburubenijix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610124a48ac34---89471273058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb61c1dc8cbb05b6545359cb48f28ee4/nuzamidovujonifojija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geredekombiservisi.com/userfiles/file/zopaw.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_off0000df8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF8B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7A2 11284 bytes
SHA-256: a72f67eaf310616cb2f36b3bc87628af5a48cbb738c0bd5d845d0124e2fb01e9
font_02_sfnt_off000111bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111BD 18616 bytes
SHA-256: fb642b5d2fee6ccbac7973dff7189e6ccdf8f5b12e9faa85b962e0f2063e4313