Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8322d7f290bdcfed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 10:32:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: b3a2fe1d488cc26e73254498a9884a4d SHA-1: 1f00e0d4f4cba972696e0ad0c5475fb789c6af46 SHA-256: 8322d7f290bdcfedbbf75844350fdcaa1a84863cc76bbd4973c68b83ad06744f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous external links and the PDF structure suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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.zima.snowcat.pl/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gutujexuf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607edf12c2c7c---mujatowirovokivuvexokaved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc31c6da8b626b0db076ad68260d8231/62034562504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurier48.pl/files/userfiles/file/79181587684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611e72c72de90---19485797928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070af38618c9---felazugoropobud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.motionmantra.com/userfiles/files/74813172503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/721ac620fdb92519012a8b840677c560/99485703582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yournamebadges.com/withyourdog/cms_uploads/file/51636123885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldurra.ly/images-editeur/img/file/jeminezoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsunyapi.com/userfiles/files/voxodivatenarasev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.motorradfreunde-toggenburg.ch/up/files/17951182873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivaibonomo.it/userfiles/files/77712881261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cooperspick.com/files/revem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab206017161---javitigamabotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bdcab02e3c---19724488927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-23/20210823231143572942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emilline.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50827064715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartywspomnien.pl/uploads/assets/file/ratijimomaragajodapoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607424d3d98de---kunufimakirofabotoborere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/sikilofafosonegisup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e226dedf5f7a2f585a41a17fc43e35a/levok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fade7c06bf1---26104137452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocw.tw/uploads/files/43647333862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=class+10+a+tiger+in+the+zoo+question+answerPDF 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_off0000bcfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCFE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d515.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD515 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 674cbb82082f9ee5771774fa8b211b76dd2dd407b0a8ef887c8a205925c76ccf
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE5D 15524 bytes
SHA-256: 132b149af913089f608ba7218712ef2abb2171dcec88935a295bed8dc7e0bc38