Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b0ba567d3c8979f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-08-05 20:29:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 09c5b2c096d82f6c05682dbca05a718d SHA-1: dad435154759a6f338237dfa05e40f7e92f7ae1a SHA-256: 8b0ba567d3c8979fe7ada8a12d9b39ef6b738c30cb778440c0ab2b144a92c370
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classification strongly suggests malicious intent. The primary goal appears to be redirecting users to potentially malicious websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=why+is+my+lg+portable+air+conditioner+not+cooling PDF link annotation
    • http://ned.ru/uploads/files/49060897535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newtrierreunion1962.com/clients/6/64/64567561842b0bbd40b956adda0282a7/File/91103120428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.net/userfiles/file/xosujebebozadewelafep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d6ca660a565d2b2ec0fc0205d084557/sorozojerofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b60a17d163faeeab443e4cdca83e83d/94321926916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/79073839695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab28de42fe4---virukori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/55118833168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seksdagen.nl/userfiles/file/73151454341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarantogeldua.com/contents//files/xewewiwawuwenajaxazig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambalatender.com/upload/files/zazosapazedexeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indago-rovigo.it/userfiles/files/zojeduwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluefield1966.com/clients/26642/File/51868586371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2cb6f0aea---31600802734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kotata-zlin.cz/obr/clanky/file/87050006991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/224778d382d6cc2e43f28e2f23593888/64309190104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s92bfi8qh60pkb7k462f83jj70/45000000647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/978d055552619b5749b967f01b140219/bozulubemopugulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.net/sites/default/files/file/15855967357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autothudo.vn/upload/fck/file/wapanepemakubokomami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makingtheturngolf.com/clients/9/92/925d9bae4ecf380f28dbe0e1390c16eb/File/dixenalux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abworder.com/uploads/files/pajeseguwaduzuzapis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humble-brag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fgjkk1kr34p1u1k5nljck7nj6/sutimaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f9f52d0c71---97972573130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quadocdao.vn/uploads/files/76834406371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humboldthighclassof79.com/clients/1/19/19f040aad945c40a0acbd79abd3dc6cb/File/56758046410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f4f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4F1 11208 bytes
SHA-256: 3d0977f5b8dff49cde695001c82df883816b4679fe04c9df63b4eb8f4339fab1
font_01_sfnt_off00010e8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E8A 16188 bytes
SHA-256: 3631d6cbee909470a5014e32a8b506cf43249bd94d8e140a4730ace9f1b2bdd0
font_02_sfnt_off0001385f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1385F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1