Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8bc3e123f44ef0d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-07-31 13:53:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 63d46bdca24393b55c71ba024ee686fd SHA-1: e38348a246926cde6aaed25227df81f04d88ccb6 SHA-256: 8bc3e123f44ef0d89bada5eb0605f76c34ad78285cee99ff4a5dae85b75cef07
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. This structure is characteristic of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+feed+bees+in+a+top+bar+hive PDF link annotation
    • https://zestus.us/admin/images/file/63749031183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acbe891e4fa---xubumunoloxamavadatexan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fsicj9aaqs3va1a6egfer7vco7/kepibedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.roosprommenschenckelfoundation.nl/ckfinder/files/files/siraginasoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/dofajujurapotimakigoxeraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cvk9qtp4bs3kc9o0bh7bpo97fh/45999635918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f15ef32d8e---11148847856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33df8de7bfdf4ff07400d2e6b6213810/vomapimedobitiwatuleza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/4339478460aa61367ef67.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fee45e0b28---12819307128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zenkenmoshi.info/images/files/file/xumasawafigowolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ada7cd7ed7---18790151500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1e2f4e3910dabd49c495863a7bcb284/jadodewof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mini-garden.ru/userfiles/file/9588282101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/439ee51fcf6c535bea115aef26cbb58a/dofobedejileduguberawegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bab908508e---fizimaxapaviriravabef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081441272832---80497092767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ehrl3vaqhk12dj6fe0v3aktio5/66165566074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a70d0f87ea7---44378166266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea2613fe07ea24a1947d7a8cb59d9066/86912267900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioindelicato.com/userfiles/files/nunajurololox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xaydungdonggia.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/25427665803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecotranslation.ca/upload/editor/file/dudig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4de852084a---kirasobolafatojijukis.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_off0000f2db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2DB 17408 bytes
SHA-256: d937425023113f18ae6ada2b664ab0670fbdaf52770a22ed19e25e24fd0a5111
font_01_sfnt_off0001207b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1207B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013892.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13892 10832 bytes
SHA-256: ddd288302bcc10ac634e79907eeeeed3b65ffd33c744b209f54cf14717203c45