Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 848b8086a786e837…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-06-25 21:47:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 78c70a6f6a9326650028f374596ab308 SHA-1: df432814e6a77dfe2b41eed4da420a0624c46f5b SHA-256: 848b8086a786e837659a035b2df015e8c5da581b1dcc5319bfff6b44c2829e6c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it likely serves as a phishing lure or a distribution point for malware. The document contains a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination or leverage vulnerable infrastructure. The primary attack pattern observed is the creation of a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=groin+pain+after+angioplasty
    • http://kirilmazbardak.com/userfiles/file/21787506501.pdf
    • http://anaminfo.com/attachfile/file/29992234680.pdf
    • http://bettynblue.com/upload/fck_img/20210509/file/11871916372.pdf
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e9a98783f---38843252462.pdf
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5b6bbe349fb496f59cdf94a4805c147/tesoxifosup.pdf
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-5/file/revuduri.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/bomeluv.pdf
    • http://0965818789.com/CKEdit/upload/files/65047747455.pdf
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///62040355807.pdf
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3b0dc457fe---30912791691.pdf
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/81066853282.pdf
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/babupaxetadasos.pdf
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5ab632424e---ranibowulazamazuse.pdf
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7r7h0kt9ok80i82d12k5b866ih/mesopegalidokoturegol.pdf
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ac8c23eb5---61591238969.pdf
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/42834287576.pdf
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dde2972d172438fdb727dcc2312edc2/85550828868.pdf
    • https://chpcentre.com/files/file/gowebamuzopu.pdf
    • http://fitviewer.biz/files/file/59389948734.pdf
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12ad0115421ea6be19eb06c29450816d/lesuguzos.pdf
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9242b6ff1dca5834b755121b0b2f19c/35644411266.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f4a8.bin
555ae8f0c82c23f2fc8a7db77774d0485b29a909c24091bdb03df1818b2ba1e9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4A8 16472 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011f7d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F7D 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013794.bin
0012e560bfc545a0623faed02d258237ebabba8fa53b09dc8cdf78cfa5ec784f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13794 10688 bytes