Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8489382ba21fe458…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-13 14:45:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8468860d19afcd954737bfa39ab34bf5 SHA-1: 15bb9e43f2729d8d1a93f96fec09a94c6e900f59 SHA-256: 8489382ba21fe458d65dbb661b5592020540d49ba497a5ffb11440e560193f2e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to various URLs, some of which are hosted on potentially compromised WordPress sites. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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 https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/66477175868.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f63ddc5df26a6f610808fc147fe16ce6/79406968186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpfish.com.taipei/archive/upload/files/fojonegabubol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandiosieventinuziali.it/filesUploads/file/17979779137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132aa498b197---nemuzomosijefakuripi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7afa84af00a0f531eeccfdb468825075/zewefid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubyyadav.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/88576471937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgindustrial.eu/userfiles/files/zadelizateviroja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fba02056c6---22573430435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ciiinnovationsummit.com/ci/userfiles/files/7286059463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e42d9080103d3c41383ebb8f2e59e406/kuxoveliruduzejapekubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apgr.eu/UserFiles/file/19610989003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipekyolumedya.com/resim_galeri/file/37904283484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientushinko.com/images/file/jekituxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netshopnepal.com/userfiles/file/gajadugimibogixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saigonservices.vn/images/uploads/files/pejowukas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radio-aurea.eu/files/file/22456783733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geraldinekilkelly.ie/jopakubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birdwatching.sk/media/file/keliwabakebatenazojav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanidom.pl/img/file/pusodewesarunoxoviteropes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ydyb.com/filespath/files/20210911084637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alhasooncorp.com/Files/files/damasuzomiwopuvorefew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canxetaidientu.com/images/file/razuxewirizezirob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e69a6a89ca---72283688711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmt-tw.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/fesixopukowixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ee85c98fc7---82138533511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=msts+indian+train+simulator+download+for+androidPDF 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_off0000e959.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE959 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 7999d37c7ebf866d678984ecf7651f4f2d2a7a27a1984181a6abd380babff267
font_01_sfnt_off00010177.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10177 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011989.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11989 18572 bytes
SHA-256: 74e0fa3b0d51008e9324107463bd65a49ea183daf053c95679a8897162d848e4