Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b960bf58d5f3ba4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-08-27 15:38:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b6f7c6957d3cc05737578852e0dd99e6 SHA-1: 5dbdbd7121da4ef7fe4b7a1f3ca63304495dc9f1 SHA-256: 8b960bf58d5f3ba47fb43ef96c8e39565ef04df57e5c3343f704dba48d87ea4d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users into downloading malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports this malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://holmeslawfirm-iowa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/lesupunixer.pdf
    • https://vegas-shop.net/uploads/files/duluga.pdf
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32ca5073f904f8356fdbe8edaff21977/xelorobixofamaxavonemabag.pdf
    • https://chief-moving.com/editor_upload/file/25087140435.pdf
    • http://patrick-vallot.com/upload/files/62879077911.pdf
    • http://satisfytech.com/ck/upload/files/44331768803.pdf
    • https://cedria.es/DOCUMENTS/FotosFCKEditor/file/5634882546.pdf
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4a3d62d75a---88044527459.pdf
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0d4f3b58604f5ec9589f2391eb5e189/dametilizenafopapavu.pdf
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210505222045.pdf
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aa34b4da7c---gamakatesozekizu.pdf
    • https://binarbaid.com/public_html/userfiles/file/maditaxakiremolekaga.pdf
    • http://limoride.net/gallery/file/40216072582.pdf
    • http://vietkinggroup.com/uploads/userfiles/file/87540411939.pdf
    • http://madonnina.info/userfiles/files/88651337441.pdf
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6e4d3792d4c0ad4ea266e3e01c8fb36/jexarujajatakidaboxi.pdf
    • http://arc-en-cielproduce.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jezugiv.pdf
    • https://mountmoriahcamp.com/media/71999286885.pdf
    • http://sorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/46320344764.pdf
    • http://inlovehuahin.com/file_media/file_image/file/86958988639.pdf
    • http://www.nena-artspace.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pisutugerariruwajekobo.pdf
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/jurakimabegebokamo.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=iso+10628+pdf+free+download
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c471.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC471 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc83.bin
81b857d49d6a68b3c9562277f60523111dd9b8b945855319c085d4fb3f00ef08
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC83 17624 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010ab1.bin
fcac7dc2d9b7d70bd39371a19b2b6da6dfffd58107b505fcefd537673cb43ab5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AB1 11008 bytes