Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8369b31a47de1ef8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-08-02 14:44:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 31f16cf478a8c80e51f35666ef97b113 SHA-1: d6031d5800b0e26eaebe65997f5c2718f5416df4 SHA-256: 8369b31a47de1ef8497efbace372a6d27785348a1e4e83a456c6890848705f85
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or other potentially untrustworthy hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://wuxihemei.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210718_111937.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tourister.kr/userfiles/file/zesewesogivutul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/12166931171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af6f113be61---83139233304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sghr.ca/upload/ckfinder/files/34277126006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc373260f88---23937800310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexa.cz/docs/file/12635189277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/fevafisenikezovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082aa4bd61c7---33967715566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085f0cd18796---tafakim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coolingrealestate.com/your-home-cleaner/FCKuploads/file/40867020288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed8b7b4a11c---69025514139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4fb5dadd84---37828330880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jvcc.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/210709152539563364xaiob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vfep6eul1jts1noquhf0olsq70/57506622640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sake2metustin.com/uploads/files/menowolapinigagodipofiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79c99ce8d9f939f9bf2807785e71cd1e/bupixomipenoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzwigipoznan.pl/userfiles/file/pizakimaboxisilex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m5t34277nstei1pl4rfj2m542n/95248742800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72dcdb417e3963800c6684ca40c2e954/44335991957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57765437a13fef3fc2630a678e222b58/81164659879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15cc901bbaa230c9adf44b479ed11f98/63169685174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/31168084668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=romeo+and+juliet+test+pdf+and+answer+keyPDF 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_off00010063.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10063 11224 bytes
SHA-256: 6cbeb3460e82e9ad540abd6961ae96970ea0c736ff15ac1668312060dfcbf9e7
font_01_sfnt_off00011aaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AAF 16708 bytes
SHA-256: 62de92742b654cab64a936b69535511932fdd115bfd743bd083b2cc85fa7afa9
font_02_sfnt_off000145d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145D6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1