Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ba7f0179dbd182d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-06-10 08:30:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 96c29edae1f8ce4ac752a389658de4b2 SHA-1: 1459545761d43cbbf9508942e19ee6e0506b64b1 SHA-256: 8ba7f0179dbd182da56a0705f37c42cba52ea6a4543cd62f44741b496d20b211
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=star+wars+abrams PDF link annotation
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a72366faf6---letelalonumikoguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb774296a0---88445592563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/70221296237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90d381269435c1c6460314dca6447b7a/zugoperigedejefuxibuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://botorka.ro/userfiles/file/82202350850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lv2kqpf2qlfsdkts959e0rc4a4/bukixobikevagapukasezas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/73477231800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b29e1215a---wevugizexuzibono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beatmuellerfoto.ch/userfiles/files/36224267218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/98296841737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/fegiwufelux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607921e21b08d---61550843472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160967e0b9b8cd---13416951426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.com/contents//files/1234184713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64968a9f21e3ee21a7e366518ee1161b/selijapewixorakomizez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/98523804006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logiccpacma.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70523380938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b05abc2eb36---wunufixid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a33afe09ea7c1f250d31a8a4b0c4ba76/zusonufed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000111b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111B5 5136 bytes
SHA-256: 722ace67755bbc30af92bba155bf56aa5f63a153b98a132a0bb22444b8e259e5
font_01_sfnt_off00012325.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12325 11452 bytes
SHA-256: 30f788b77c6a77bf184db7361908e15bc80cc7ba16578d9be7da571c645a441e