Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b4ff2be703751c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 07:56:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ae817abf083d7a54f167377e6c8a3141 SHA-1: 33650f26c88452c6fecceac047a1cfa0840fcada SHA-256: 8b4ff2be703751c72dccd9c62da5f4e5ddc7927beb361079226f77eceb1fcb25
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=3d+pencil+drawing+tutorial+step+by+step+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6acd2e8b1e748c6c0001043d759ab3f/karaluwowodunipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-zub.ru/userfiles/file/xifaxufenokofezilonejag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekbdrive.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rijerupudoponujofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferropula.hr/files/49563777523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mingzhicc.com/userfiles/files/wovoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd0b992e85bb4804b1adf7a6e4dddf47/26445164881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liderzy.natura2000.pl/imgturysta/files/34564015221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globomax.eu/userfiles/file/22530653360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czerwoneiczarne.pl/files/file/muzipaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3dd8acf7c1---4399414765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6i70o4tc9vftcbrojk0lgabgm4/27357734743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a38e3920318---27860676505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaab3e615cb---32516671314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centralwestwoodclassof1983.com/clients/c/cd/cd4b3c89dd1500142a52f05b9125c350/File/30702769991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhorizontours.com/userfiles/files/bifizuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://warwick-ems.org/userfiles/file/vonomudiwusikebuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inverpalmas.com/aym_image/files/42663678398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a7910a2a2a---simifutaberopifawelepawoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exosushi.com/uploads/files/74112457952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161302527aee58---32099841950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aabc287a3a8---risibasamasubumerum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colantuono.it/userfiles/files/88249655180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d5eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5EB 17332 bytes
SHA-256: 519fbb8d913d274d43de5cddc0631a0945282a5b4df24586d1129edfcf2aba56
font_01_sfnt_off0001027b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1027B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A92 11308 bytes
SHA-256: ad29b670db38d7ce2383c8ddfd7c52a3cb5b7adc2f824c266b5628f0640fde77

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