Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8bd1a21970900c6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-08-10 23:05:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 8bd4e4a8400529827e4b2fa85bb22d46 SHA-1: bd4db9ca9f01fb87443091046af6de3c1074b78f SHA-256: 8bd1a21970900c6c6e4ef203f1efe4bc8620c9c56ecef8e5c99104899e2f0e61
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous unknown PDF files hosted on various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm heuristic suggests the primary goal is to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://spacio.hk/attachment/file/suputufonesilitabitevef.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ooo-kenk.ru/userfiles/file/fanubokaweviridarazowuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eperon-kochersberg.com/img_db/xigefikoxofifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b81176bd31b7e1de62caf4f1906d1789/33402538729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c289a0faa---43356739179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbwingslynnhaven.com/uploads/files/vetitezugobatowomil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1141977f5a---15977561331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/2021615015337036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vozilasavozacem.rs//files/49573920372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fetogram.ir/images/upload/files/tosobasoxakaxin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb69a3c0b4---pezesowudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavibusiness.it/file/6911646081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-trading-knotwork.com/uploads/media/diwokuwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78046b8be71660f930319f620df1e34c/tovobokosojagebeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f4aee57b5e---vixawemeguvizav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q4kptj3td2eno0oa7k8v12rblt/tefekazanaxin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carparts-fixture.com/file/file/81410303504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st-ark.it/userfiles/files/vozuleluzapipen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3254c14c4---7825286531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc71dcaa835639ff8dd9a4452a2b07fb/39326111632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.autopsrus.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lonuroritarofunaronituvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/3642441896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicobonoli.com/userfiles/files/fegadufatirazapula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86c02256cb9846704a750d2257db9820/bididudisemaxegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feast.to/upd_file/xatovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medrea.ru/upload/files/46024147863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=report+card+comments+for+kindergarten+end+of+the+year+pdfPDF 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_off0000f59d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF59D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010daf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DAF 16444 bytes
SHA-256: d89b9571c224f2e8c967916bc3b784511dd47e882db58f2def1c7f054d1edbb9
font_02_sfnt_off0001385f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1385F 11272 bytes
SHA-256: fc5c5c52739fe89718276217afee19179e95b24b066e1fea0cb9d1c7159bcbe9