Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8456614de6e102df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-09-10 06:51:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: eeabc7a0d13b7a93172158327e9545b4 SHA-1: 25e1792275a0343150709d8e4574d10faddc81c4 SHA-256: 8456614de6e102df21e5ca04e979e60e89d33d7fddc71351ba52406060fa3268
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of a 'download button' lure further suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://sivam.pl/files/file/nazivaxekofomenebupofot.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://portalbime.com/UploadedFiles/New/file/78932901830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.padanguparduotuve.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuguludefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://de.ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dekagavigezasosed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ic.ru/uploads/file/wivivetenamuxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speakingparrot.com/upload/ckfinder/files/42241592608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubietelbar.hu/uploadfile/76284105816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ed5a10605b725794230dcb088822957/munibado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeusjtu.pretty-match.com/upload/files/21603961107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boki.hu/editor_up/37448930700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://underworldgear.com/admin/images/fckImg/file/51240462586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a265a90175719e53394af0d8de1c0e55/9719479265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailyliving.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lixez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l02a2a1mc7a80tv1ec2pl0lmsj/63639933246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613485f0826a6---98999706420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilmatbasim.com/userfiles/file/webigokapufunebelodit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futsalcb.cz/picture/vtextu/file/71418217707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milsagliksen.org/upload/ckfinder/files/78990704768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anukulagrotech.com/ci/userfiles/files/balirezozivakivuvasepega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinruily.com/UploadFile/file/20210910071427871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homecareangels.ca/files/files/files/gofomogevetigapized.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minerva-collection.net/files/files/93225672244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcus-1.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210905_08EF57EEFBA33F50.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wamer.org/userfiles/file/zunelorugurota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benrassam.com/uploads/files/renegavusatuzilowun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=multi+betting+tips+apkPDF 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_off0000e39c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE39C 20112 bytes
SHA-256: fdd3ee2f530250097c1c49d3e37bb463c86fdf63f51298b7a8e2bd22c37df860
font_01_sfnt_off000118f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001310c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1310C 10532 bytes
SHA-256: b84af3c9eee78f571183f160b89e937ba61e263180325f9fee1f43c424ab65e3