Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b19e31939ce5d1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 21:49:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 6f5fd37b3334496d4d64ff5a3c6818c4 SHA-1: aa01596ce89c9e406fc31c9151b3d3ac9bc359b9 SHA-256: 8b19e31939ce5d1a82d6d7ddc4ed0a4c25789af8d255b3a35ae9b018fbfde0c7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of numerous URLs, many pointing to potentially disposable hosting or compromised sites, suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://hanahana.vn/media/ftp/file/20865704490.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ever-progress.com/upload/files/39171747609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertsystemgroup.com/file_media/file_image/file/bavewew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec2ff2f8c950806b9295f492592dce71/32033569596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.domaine-boussard-chablis.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/misuzunurev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coolingrealestate.com/your-home-cleaner/FCKuploads/file/jerutibiwedasoxakarajulim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b52104da1a537fe68a8bb291cf136e3/29943542815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f92cd99e33edcdb74e6975f3a07e1b7/suvisamiwagixopovuzesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f6e2cba2ead---54380976822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tort-art.ru/userfiles/file/mojilipezeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szekszardportal.hu/userfiles/file/33103113988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8b6beeac4---gepelig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105482e1281a---56342697175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaxtongroup.com/home5/maxconne/public_html/kaxtongroup/assets/images/newspostimages/files/zisuzuponevure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanstime.com/userData/board/file/zimiregivano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c5cfc6a369e6a35432da54f96b3a987/xujisovepotobotufiguve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5c779292c6---xipafosop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowlinggreenhsclassof66.com/clients/b/bd/bdf8ab256cd88a603fc2b95a051c5839/File/75462296423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biolabsrl.org/userfiles/files/baboxosuxovame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j87otb0a1uoc125joiov7pk3bo/86424473764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodlife88.com/uploads/files/53175038813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marugame.hk/editor_upload/file/73517627671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geriatriccarenewjersey.com/userfiles/files/lovuwojenerosanoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=pupuk+kandang+sapi+pdfPDF 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_off0000e93e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE93E 10368 bytes
SHA-256: a205cbdc9d95fa2318fdcc2eea082d958f6f7bb11889c8982a1e89be66980db7
font_01_sfnt_off0001008b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1008B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001189d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1189D 17660 bytes
SHA-256: 351818adc9cefd2cabca09cec5d657272d674a64de0928877c6dd9ab35a8128a