Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8bb4b5c4eb095e91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-05-26 07:54:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2b77dd0561f21d41136ff6043c1265a8 SHA-1: 67ea0b3429d34dd8bb32adb8e5a0bf70b0387dd9 SHA-256: 8bb4b5c4eb095e912237874e32b8f8cf653d13efd2556faf4272d5d44e6e6c28
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of an attempt to exploit users by directing them to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25598b385eb53262d1566cf2c2ea2f41/86472053800.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/bekozeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876febd271b---mevonepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094187294fdb---fojinevomefararagos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyotiacademicpress.org/uploads/file/28112938547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c7a9bb5a59---bujofexelajotofuxamit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomleasing.ru/media/File/11826617118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.com/slicice/file/bawalos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/664ff80c756722997cf0f51259d94b0e/57789414168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masini-de-ambalat.ro/images/userfiles/79736743263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/087b07dfec425b1715d36497579bf307/moginoremis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160933198b0c1e---41484690909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.com/menu/file/sutatopebavobus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=who+is+responsible+for+gatsby%2527s+death+essayPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d034.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD034 5592 bytes
SHA-256: 2760b3e72d09fe993a097d0e6d9019aa6f87dc04b75c66f3292404eb5a5c80c7
font_01_sfnt_off0000e34a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE34A 11020 bytes
SHA-256: 169511f36602df66506444334f49dbad2307b29aedd0bbcec0ab5247274f54a1

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