Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8687aaddfb80dc92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-10-04 16:06:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 38c33f209d545b1c3a0b9df6f91fb3b9 SHA-1: 2c7eef91236606286c222d00a79de4610e32ce47 SHA-256: 8687aaddfb80dc92959f0e65d462f00e23cec4907f8d3249a614a6d270358798
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable binary data, but the heuristic firings clearly identify the malicious nature of the embedded links.

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 https://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=biggest+aeroplane+in+the+world+2020
    • http://hbtsap.com/Upfiles/news/file///levepubuzadif.pdf
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/933067f66d31f11eed66b435d50f564c/nataxanudofe.pdf
    • http://greensketch.in/userfiles/file/liramuvukulup.pdf
    • http://vagyonvedelemszolnok.hu/admin/fck_upload/file/bedereraw.pdf
    • https://10fci.org/userfiles/file/52662305818.pdf
    • http://chochosanencino.com/uploads/files/93355187006.pdf
    • http://thementalhealthadvocates.org/files/userfiles/file/nonuzedadanodexikonelurin.pdf
    • http://madang.eu/f_pds/fck/file/27083033117.pdf
    • http://ambvetfanini.eu/userfiles/files/wejagejisenepelulusero.pdf
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161416d600bf9e---sewobinujezafafijidupo.pdf
    • https://likeevent.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/xuxoxixesulazugimabomuloj.pdf
    • http://talk200.com/admin/admin/uploadfiles/file/81276329053.pdf
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615983c2ea131---67174873190.pdf
    • http://thai-apsproducts.com/file_media/file_image/file/numezaronevixipatos.pdf
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8fb5da23c77f295f4ea2c548f7b7a3e/sivaraled.pdf
    • https://cribpointonline.org/cribpointonline/userimages/file/54631255173.pdf
    • http://imhyuk.com/imhyukeditor/userfile/file/nikokopilavenolusid.pdf
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8478f6d984e41ebb98a2bee8cfcafb27/betuzizabaj.pdf
    • https://aldurra.ly/images-editeur/img/file/vugetajekuzebisupifoz.pdf
    • http://t-p-fortune.com/userfiles/file/kewanulo.pdf
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nos7c892trh3vbc45fpe74bag3/ponaboz.pdf
    • https://netiko.fr/img/Data/file/sixaduponifivekikugekosut.pdf
    • https://ghadir-eng.com/userfiles/files/66321917987.pdf
    • https://www.esfa.bg/root/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12036166425.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_off0000bae2.bin
98bd53844dc992e871b0efc05f219f6439c9e863ec1e5982c7641da16c474fe6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAE2 11052 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d472.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD472 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec84.bin
f1a0fc399fba319c75d0bc68b19117ffea59ad2daceeade566ea840e13c8707b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC84 16372 bytes