Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8bb951db0a8832d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-15 06:37:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 8d682ace69d08b807221901b742c1221 SHA-1: 36e7171c9947b5d48075ce78cfb0f472c6f8f6dd SHA-256: 8bb951db0a8832d6cc2d22a180787b6fe7100672e0240c95fa847b1b90186a2b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous links pointing to compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads indicates a phishing or malware distribution lure. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://kcntanduc.vn/img_duhoc/files/62194715760.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://healthlantern.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mosajipovebusasunud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e4cd5445db27a5cea9c63a4efd64e35/deguvik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dekobonner.de/userfiles/file/zadasobukukijexubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csmgh.net/pevron/www/img/file/derugaxajepofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietnamairlinescorp.org/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14242268080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haki.vn/uploads/files/losajudogafow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614015ee15a6f---173731710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waxiangyuan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-5/20210905082321476931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tieulongcopro.com/luutru/files/xoxojesok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613102aa1c43b---96395640535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sikahaiphong.com/images/news/files/31298933420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f5fdf93841---31569840903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161408c8b1b23a---8396254889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c35bfb7012b9b08c7ef9745b49a0f9c/77204939775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/82902882492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrumschoolka.pl/photos/file/4149103512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ninda.vn/userfiles/files/mudinowixepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkdesign.ee/userfiles/file/zejefumuvikumazivot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nincity.de/inline/file/86940363283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ic.ru/uploads/file/33906453294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pazarziraat.com/userfiles/file/68974693938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notarbrazda.cz/userfiles/file/In PDF document text
    • https://sukaunited4d.vip/contents/files/96268467161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happyjourney.webtrails.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/latemekimesisuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=download+redtube+apkPDF 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_off0000e20b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE20B 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 9e612ac93b85595161a4b0a35ab0a8379b48998319f3049becccd69a225c0752
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA06 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011218.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11218 18188 bytes
SHA-256: bfd6d98a36c3bf5ba0f923a66b64a4810feb7ee4a28f5bf687355282148f5651