Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b8513b0c7c7f179…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 18:43:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 8cc8a87d2f0d3e3478e31c0d91f28188 SHA-1: f5ccde79704070ffb93bd4584855a913ef76b3f2 SHA-256: 8b8513b0c7c7f1797958743d5d27af5aa6d70122d220b179fbc2914928a4c583
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file that exhibits characteristics of malicious intent, including malformed streams and links to potentially compromised websites. The presence of numerous URLs, many pointing to WordPress installations, suggests an attempt to host and distribute further malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate it's designed to trick users into downloading a payload, likely disguised as a legitimate file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

Heuristics 7

  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://tomaszfilipczak.pl/userfiles/file/5253642702.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://eastcoastbiker.de/sites/default/files/file/54509737091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinzimoniofiumicino.eu/userfiles/files/5959285570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mxag.com/upload/browse/file/vexeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a31e902a3---48741788127.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098322f3d3f4---fegejugekovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab15061cdaf---dilibafil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35rg27f7kf7rlto1uscpgdv4rk/jejuvabumolevipepebalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingteye.com/upload/files/wavirabewema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607217a056f83---59182449492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/lemosalowodopinupen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schooldistrictservices.com/clients/f/f6/f6ab1571d2cdf5e569af7b76e288b17c/File/48114864223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinivetmadonnadirosa.eu/userfiles/files/tulerebadodavidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art4you.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/noteraxobozunodamutuzal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38dd1726716a7da97fab6b15d9970dcb/maludonexiwuweferedik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raljob.com/userfiles/file/89842079865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babywagen24.de/userfiles/file/zovar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b07bd9af92c---legowam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/512a1b91ceb6175e634ca75b2d9c97eb/43282182893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logtech.cz/foto/Image/file/7415292542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc52af2d4d1---velutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turatabor.hu/media/5944241940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuhenganquan.com/userfiles/file/20210624103057_1007008559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=descargar+convertidor+de+archivos+pdf+a+excel+gratisPDF 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_off0000d943.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD943 11068 bytes
SHA-256: 294dca278de210152c5a735e0401f5795e0d30c7aef8e9502a77e0806b78472c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2D4 18664 bytes
SHA-256: 401a17b93f44254a7bd8f607cfd4d94f9e7e70acf751bed66c4da62986fad546
font_02_sfnt_off00012290.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12290 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1