Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b30da12c8ae0a80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-19 23:17:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 1a7a363e161484ac2d875901c25b9465 SHA-1: e45816099a845975f393d1951839e34a085dd636 SHA-256: 8b30da12c8ae0a80b4baa28b74f541498f091846f4eddad377c6da12a929bab7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic indicate a deliberate effort to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://preiss.at/upload_files/files/6942913445.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tradotel-riviera.com/file/14505701044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136346a7a256---31191939218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a92777596f---49017033351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpidia2.com/contents/files/revimefetagibakovalotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uralinteh.com/uploads/files/68896813033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613083f64d2ed---duxigugefafedujonon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tc-antey.ru/uploads/files/serofugufenixigutera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxfreepoint.com/file/fesimufipozelemugar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gurgy.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34421464978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dj-maily.com/uploads/pages/files/4136937454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baloneacessorios.com/_upload/file///sigilujul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irpuyesh.com/cache/fck_files/file/75045944912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuanhuaabshanquoc.vn/files/46080713334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myparrotfood.com/user_files/files/japosoruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f5317021cc---lefosutawubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kor-ra.ru/UserFiles/file/lisase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a09c016020a92f4b477b7599fa77a8a6/16980997017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f541ccac9d---95642254061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/15997889077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsm.hk/images/files/33369610291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mingzhicc.com/userfiles/files/jadiwumilidoparexetaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph2020.org/FCKeditor/file/mabijolekapisexilisanuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=mouse+apk+for+androidPDF 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_off0000c720.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC720 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 108c8175d69c4fe1803aaa66274f66f9a2a757fccd269a3e214866bd556acff6
font_01_sfnt_off0000df42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF42 20784 bytes
SHA-256: 5322364737d285f737efda5c5414af3f4cefa54a485ae3f1d63e185066c81185
font_02_sfnt_off0001156b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1156B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1