Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b6d5325ff61ae0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

125.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 17:46:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: c5be7883c0bd580fa32c314746e56d62 SHA-1: eb077d7cb8c5de05c97fe2881ae37dcdf07f5c09 SHA-256: 8b6d5325ff61ae0f2ddcb2c4542c3209299859210d8e214b608feb954da51bea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The primary function appears to be redirecting users to potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://khotelmarket.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210626_F25774B8467C7776.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad629d9c281---25779649786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/lerusofufegatam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e32d6bb0f8d---76018230724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2vxr09c6mc.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/vukedojisudusakadopufize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.la-providence-ehpad.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vozagexalojutebuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nensi.si/upload/file/rafagizujezisafugen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f48580fc9413f68a724ce815baa82ca/regoziwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fszhenjia.com/upfolder/e/files/20210630120239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://393citizen.com/upload/files/dovilajodinogen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9bbecae46a1c9cf622af4fb8588e9cd/42079190071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e56e8ev52opk61v5ntjhm2kdda/nasunowap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daindnc.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/fajapek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc4cf550425---lifizebajititonazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pioneerbuzz.net/userimages/71718787367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/bosamugafefogosadakuvatab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kelvista.lt/images/files/fubokudatudasesugib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71e7c9903d4b85d5edb856d21c947aa6/tunegazaboleguwudojax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vkp.ru/upload/global/file/bivuzalevitabebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2rent.gr/userfiles/file/zogojexewitukofebujoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljazeerahdrilling.com/userfiles/files/jajadavibepeteda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u56idkr5dip6e5jkkbbrors78p/75457101731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resetimpianti.it/reset/public/file/34790192611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3uhvns8na2kictkrhblisvevs0/84363144375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=constitution+fran%C3%A7aise+2018+pdfPDF 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_off000180ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x180FF 20816 bytes
SHA-256: 912b04b03a3e69f06e155eb42293251b77b3c2b68755163af675d4a05e16e4bd
font_01_sfnt_off0001b468.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B468 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001cc7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CC7F 11276 bytes
SHA-256: 5ee704553b38693e46d6b691efc9602b0f129834aca95f3d12f37170456c3beb