Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b26d9b4710101c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-14 01:43:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 3653b58ad2cd2f94ee5c3574abd1afa9 SHA-1: 45f5b3b476fa9d18a1e060038dafe17de6f661dd SHA-256: 8b26d9b4710101c76637c8b8ac8261faa501e904aaa0da4555f52268b34cbcc1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://lekkermooi.nl/userfiles/file/74939810148.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://luathoanghuy.com/uploads/files/26782052988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caopump.com/admin/userfiles/file/61092831850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caissedesecolesdu5eme.fr/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52840248784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yousefmaktabi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cometsecurity.in/admin/userfiles/file/45759693199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunian-co.com/other_files/File/61286555318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dzido.pl/userfiles/file/tenugikodajojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://produktybhp.pl/pliki_user/File/89930747040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmarlboropike.com/uploads/files/39484109831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoshitorionline.com/uploads/files/bajuvaxizoxozerokupufuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bc1e79dc51---gizonevirujaneven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equalland.com/uploads/File/rovikiwipefibofobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfanchem.com/upload/files/96644617053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwplazaview.com/uploads/files/27784273988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtreurope.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ramiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watfordfairtrade.org/app/webroot/img/files/82056664843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgd42.ru/userfiles/file/61652149417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delta-serwis.pl/pliki/fomolofuzawagidusuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaukitchen.com/uploads/files/gikib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132f995e8089---falapisarifukinatigovewor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133a40a37496---83511777219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=ml+apps+apkPDF 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_off0000e200.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE200 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA12 21320 bytes
SHA-256: 84348fa1da6accfdc7fe03b864901b90f9e8a313db2c2d764c3620e07a732bd7
font_02_sfnt_off00013154.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13154 9684 bytes
SHA-256: bf18217e5f2aedaede0a5387749bb07af6e319cac72b6f86b92442629c8245f6