Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b39272748f8c7fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-08-04 19:27:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: feb08601bba582ada73d363ffb320c62 SHA-1: 0c0a470e6ffceeffa5a236425b8c54f3731d9682 SHA-256: 8b39272748f8c7fd804b9070ce3e249ae538d4241fadfb8e16eff60702221e0e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. This structure is indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, aiming to lure users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://hongdacable.com/d/files/tuwizemonotuzepusijanam.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bronia.org/userfiles/file/62178029015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05c31892b97e33bebff6d37719d0ec21/gasetasoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supermarketdv.ru/files/file/64491774801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2liksa092sfslu19t76airq09o/94418429662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086907cbe756---18276176922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2602abde3a---89258409061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084172f1b60e---52539737202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/feguravu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46dc48c91f777959d02085b225f28d74/1868979125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panhongbo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/mafofirarafomaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcbcharpentebois.com/ressource/site-image/files/22677229209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba53ecb868f---12094150591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osoboebludo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zofapenawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebel-guitars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9851bb7c3c6e78b55fc9a60ce197a87/65980155354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boekenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/bigom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzeumostrowiec.pl/obrazy/file/20705658284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uticahighclassof78.com/clients/8/89/89c70e22fe5ad1405280b455f64975d7/File/rixototapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ac45eca163---veposafiwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/147a8a6d37b1b1800796e9f54cc904f0/92012253013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/rusutabeburiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letdentalab.com/img/files/22719834399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e9fa877db9---tefevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083cc1be9363---tiditevun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=ejemplo+de+una+cita+textual+corta+en+formato+apaPDF 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_off0000f39b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF39B 10928 bytes
SHA-256: afaffad8c2d8390593f847124aae792f1fdaa09335855b45e1cb41d2b610bace
font_01_sfnt_off00010cd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CD5 18620 bytes
SHA-256: 3a2de6083d30b0376d02679df3cb6caf5e8696151aabd5cbe92edd030cdab730
font_02_sfnt_off00013c96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C96 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1