Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b192ffea08ec631…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.4 KB Created: 2021-09-11 16:46:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ab9eed141aefdf9498bdeb667f2f1bad SHA-1: 0bd5f82d1adcd9e737466cde74109025688c1bc4 SHA-256: 8b192ffea08ec6316568d8939aff71890197b901c7a97b2f6d13b849d3eb1a36
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting. The presence of these links, often disguised with terms like 'apk download', suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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 http://opusbiz.kr/data/editor/file/4244074986136d2fe2bdad.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://em.heephong.org/ethnicminorities/cmsadmin/ckfinder/files/pulaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsg-edinstvo.ru/userfiles/file/sajusefubiwoxatifoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebankcardservice.com/uploads/files/72538586447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourgans.org/userfiles/files/tetozizazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatrangpalace.net/app/webroot/upload/files/86998013716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dhins.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/34754515632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfacgroup.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/22199301200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/420b4f9c2876dc223fb69438ae5a8293/kasawilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thainightjob.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43527137188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidurmalam.com/contents/files/raditemesizoleli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://likebarcode.com/image/files/20210911_072901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vhkimo4ghesk912jevsofbm01n/jigox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613438b9db64a---vuniboponanogufob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bohemiamaestro.com/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90083492260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enilubricantvn.hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/67323057122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albriug.com/static/editor/ckeditor/ckfinder/upfile/files/25436736433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexprikson.com/admin/style/images/userfiles/file/rifolituveworubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dogandemir.av.tr/paketler/ckfinder/dosyalar/files/sufodivavelulewajeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cck-brno.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zazitebimapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyarmatilovastorna.hu/userfiles/file/xebeperejunov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fishhabitatnetwork.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gumafezom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricoconsultingattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/23144548622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--elementy-zczne-kwb98g.pl/media/file/dewago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.binghan.my/userfiles/file/buruka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=instagram+auto+liker+apk+download+2020PDF 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_off00010b95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B95 11204 bytes
SHA-256: 1f91b629cdcb39aff705b7117b010766d7b4ae48af9240e2c57f3e25d5398d27
font_01_sfnt_off000125ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013dbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DBE 20856 bytes
SHA-256: 3355d7da5476a78033059ba2620747e88280e863ff1a64dbbf1ce01857bcc914