Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b4b68f1a8634d69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.8 KB Created: 2021-08-17 18:36:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: b4df66356dd8e9b0014660ff8a6f8a0c SHA-1: 1b5744da1838f71a7cee07f2057e2b703bc78cda SHA-256: 8b4b68f1a8634d695d91cbdb7393e19f60db5844b87e60231ec2ed75185b1275
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are identified as link farms hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to potentially malicious content through these links, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9886

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://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a06ce0f3258---72887947763.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcb6b802b5d---jawike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naasschoolofmotoring.ie/fckeditor/userfiles/file/27920066251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhanloc.net/userfiles/file/xunotoridabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tks-forever.com/upload/2021/07/28/file/famolatoruviwaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartonwrappingmachine.com/userfiles/file/50194839379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usmleworkout.com/files/file/5529823658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0032e07338---49130525306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610750ece4294---fivodigunefozonikij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ta-taiwan.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/59305713179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/301002f44941cc2fbf3e34afc1abd4a9/88830932359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080239d727d9---32750388831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southwest66reunion.com/clients/f/f6/f6f8b7bd17d60304c359e527a2c43449/File/34567121171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perchegouet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dibedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lynhuagiasi.com/Images_upload/files/gamiwuxakelala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3d172f2e3---zapuxuwapiposulakenib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uss100.com/clients/5/56/562308f4da1da23328cfd9e5c9f3e68f/File/89784715744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2672ariuope36gu6u2jt2cs2o2/womikimadevigagatanijipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gwynharmon.com/home/gwyn/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/litobesajebosenufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aeaea526a51---mofakulugiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilltop1976.com/clients/24685/File/37204823946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murzilka.biz/images/uploads/file/59717243267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pergamine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80831258112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/775f0326aa4136eef2faf739173842f5/63036875262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c51a25d6edc---gilojogonuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=enrique+iglesias+tonight+im+lovin+you+mp3+free+downloadPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010e70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E70 22360 bytes
SHA-256: 013fb30df0c85fb6695c033d719ca05bb22638d83491af00ded256c520079d40
font_01_sfnt_off00014691.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14691 11612 bytes
SHA-256: a2c21b24de22e5e745722ac78dc9cbcfcd7a18c6aeb7d66c8e63e9051edbf254
font_02_sfnt_off0001617f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1617F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00017990.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17990 16164 bytes
SHA-256: fd494554c7a7a2c4488382a78096c535ff133766c7221992be4f6a58596b2467