Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b907cd65655d5e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-08-07 14:27:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8ada471931a917a88ffcbbd0d457ce6a SHA-1: 1cac8aee6d0a3cba0b5dcc927d5055eb0d4f8e45 SHA-256: 8b907cd65655d5e7728d587815e6eb202b024039965dfad6ca8413833195cc27
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malware. The presence of a visual download button lure further supports a malicious intent to trick users into downloading harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.darvidproperty.com/news/file/58080836636.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://georeno.ca/userfiles/files/90715493635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59465bfad6bb72b59ae6a3d4861aa301/raropedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e82b560d4f---32787208399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amghanoi.com/images/ckeditor/files/gufatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109ee79dd36d---38608088905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serwisnawigacji.pl/userfiles/file/95287284393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oilbasaro.com/web/images/ckfinder/files/20210613134659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parkettworld.com/upload/files/20734298694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cualuoihoanmy.com/uploads/userfiles/file/82620699839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callmarkinvestments.com/callmark/files/bufiratetemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6cea865e40---13763292217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eba0db783f46a8791a3b798d6526d72c/vamivexumibowazixuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weymouthhighschoolclassof62.com/clients/5/50/50fe23896e84432c97ff20d680692bb9/File/84399639464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8f4a13d5e4---sezug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072877443508---dirudedodune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ultrabeauty-ff.ru/userfiles/file/18663105980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cba13471836---jikudosowonetaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiehuist.com/userfiles/files/91886965341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovove-ploty-brany-zabradli.cz/UserFiles/File/wafaluxuxerimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ksmt.edu.np/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pifurujolazemor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avstralianature.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36242680210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=god+talks+with+arjuna+hindi+pdf+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ece4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECE4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000104f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104F6 16784 bytes
SHA-256: 77a109d7e26c430517bf647873c668a1b904ffd11a2a5c4a21c0eb66273d3ad4
font_02_sfnt_off000130cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130CB 10908 bytes
SHA-256: e9b4c9e4e69335fef6ddbc42b3be7d536756baa4d78a35cf05d46171f130f9cf