Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b91094c2570c483…

MALICIOUS

PDF

120.6 KB Created: 2021-07-15 17:18:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a16fdb6be01333f6a51842cae589ca54 SHA-1: b6b6f96cbd65120638af3eea300155fe38c4d901 SHA-256: 8b91094c2570c483bbd546d426a9fbcfe314f68e068d14615f99961d4462e6ce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abfa8d8d42ae99ea6d96b5e80eea0354/nexovopitutopetunonokup.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/bowuvofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sshs61.com/clients/6/60/60e739d5a8cf4a6710e4f064fd99417d/File/tawufanibusinokikafanonet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160772e8d5dad1---xubinifonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a82a8daae5455b3c24ada546e57b8817/3994007794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db9336d5749a4ba15bc750594191c66b/6436383596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art-lamps-rali.eu/files/file/geluxudifapev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160838319b2b9d---defogogez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaoduocquyhiem.com/userfiles/image/file/64865629629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltssinternational.com/res/wysiwyg/file/tapotazoralirupapuwilud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unnatiwelfareorganization.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/linaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surrattsville69.com/clients/8/81/8122276c22396d7fa0996010cc369f50/File/wizelid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b19981cd0d2cd0023febb1504b909d99/49389245061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5i3seaisuore53sh4usv3d5k5m/potudategojawelazazapifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sport-jicin.cz/dokumenty/90668103344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutbephottaihaiphong24h.com/upload/files/bajiniseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2vxr09c6mc.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/fofelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dacfd3ecdd---sapozes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e0usbep67fhcrrkoenkp6htb3/mexil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec3f3fe1925---gumitafosetebogabumaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c0fe265e1---zidepid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c15a654809---gufajamizibatubaladapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a4c51630a---vokumine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exmar.it/foto_fck/file/2735274423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanmusicfestival.com/userfiles/file/liwefim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a4c6d02325---winigibezevupilulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/naxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alnahamgroup.com/userfiles/file/ladezedosagawujuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=max+cooperman+never+back+down+2PDF 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_off000176ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x176EA 17352 bytes
SHA-256: 96a8562195e7140b13af29b5be33cf03c7b1c8e25a3e2e1df9230eb1a0172387
font_01_sfnt_off0001a3e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A3E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001bc00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BC00 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 70316ac19f7d4c93892b9b37b8643835cc9b66a4f16868d5e36c8ac6292d3dbd