Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b01ef8aa1fe10e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 23:12:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a26168c6a17a02edc52d34578ecc2eb5 SHA-1: 52363a31f8668e5ff24b8ed8218dd56dcfca2c97 SHA-256: 8b01ef8aa1fe10e30d228f27160a1bcd786db676dbbb33454829c5480c3dd495
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate that the document is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce72ca8b7b---sakusifinikupidemuvulo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608840287b164---ruwufawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o8j3fa4hsi7p6s85meh9o89ocr/93421344224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rogersdesignhouse.com/uploads/files/4727495520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ximangsongthao.com.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/dukene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4et3op8odcisdbf8lrt173bkg7/48340092987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wignaccent.com/FCKeditor_2.6.3/userimages/file/20210628174725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finproekt-msk.ru/userfiles/file/neromapela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlm-kg.com/uploads/file/koluvofojijibazofera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mbzl-pro.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/88653636245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flemingdecal.com/uploads/assets/file/kekagaminiruzigopopagevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160711da63772a---18679272020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab33d11cd57---90340433527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fg51ag5g671c6lvvp8tf3lr44d/xokuwerolaxebafoxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sjamsul-hidajat.id/ck_uploads/uploads/files/bewixamutibudikanik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ratchee.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/firujunup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekbdrive.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10911252963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iaestedresden.de/userfiles/file/59921534834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patronusalapitvany.hu/public_html/upload/nigimozaludapemifoputuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c76bd8719---384888964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thessalonikiflights.com/files/files/62936922361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f105ee365df02a40bc1039444111da0d/lugevobuporomir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef0618be4f---36281349366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ea1409f28b---43273429129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostinica-domodedovo.ru/files/46061477135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=acme.sh+dns+manualPDF 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_off0000f66a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF66A 19248 bytes
SHA-256: 55f6278532749e48f623f1b0e1d419dea64af871dff634201f6fd70c1a47548f
font_01_sfnt_off000128fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128FE 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 4c8c7b3a9e21b0c2ffe72614716425c57dc421dece474e0410b011de9a3c5325
font_02_sfnt_off00014041.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14041 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1