Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8bbad79adb76f495…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 16:27:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 295869c8e41f30be41093ca01b21490e SHA-1: 5cfe6cf7bede194235850cef8cc38db8bd37a638 SHA-256: 8bbad79adb76f4958c782b763e9f0b8df75a66a8f7a1b9a268b428e89ef0c176
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that likely lead to malicious content or further infection vectors. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators strongly suggests its purpose is to redirect users to compromised websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lawak+kampus+free+download+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/29996944601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.accl-calibration.com/login/ckfinder/userfiles/files/morubolevoxipalerolus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fee44fb713b042e1281602160bd4c78a/runatepabapiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1lnlph6a7hpm2u257qh1c9nr7/fasido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemculture.com/userfiles/file/7164322453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consol.hu/images/uploadedimages/file/dariwipaturo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5d072c1be5e7672b775361caf05c4c2/79464678423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valserve.in/web/k/main_admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/besafodiziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2g0ndncfleho0sm4j9vvh8i4bd/nipakarapaduxinokujivopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c791171248b---6469632261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keysrotary.com/clients/d/da/da683cbc30bfd632b0b364d14bdd38fd/File/64781216082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulsantour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210801_0601657BEFFAD939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1f475cf50---13904890570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/47410068858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/movorifokivevibunab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbdb1e491d9eb72496dbf80e1f9cc721/vojepokokoxoxexisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/121dce107ebff400d90bda81baab5e3d/71142242068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cef539baf1d61a19f74603e74f471649/1219254555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moffatcountyhighschool65.com/clients/878592/File/8004053369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfba9f7b950---41762142645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a3955ef2a---bebepagitibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dyglas.com/userData/board/file/zapogusukas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lekkermooi.nl/userfiles/file/nurirovos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasarimak.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31544325364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a4b5e00cb---parosu.pdfIn 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://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_off0000db04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB04 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f31b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF31B 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 8da80e626d2591da7e2d559ccc37da6dd348ddaa0afbb76b66b8122886b38a3e
font_02_sfnt_off00010bb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BB3 17656 bytes
SHA-256: e30f18720fcab114a57d74ab9e0d7b0183171ff84b0223d9208a95291578e8d1