Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8bff681ed6af37b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 22:51:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 6b117d1c7c9061ac0b9f11d24c846465 SHA-1: 5345b99284bd68bce411a08221022fbd835b86c6 SHA-256: 8bff681ed6af37b966ec2f0c38515737fa075e7e21d7fa1f71361e46e2b5cda3
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to these external sites, which likely serve as a distribution point for further malware or phishing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://htchninc.com/d/files/73894405163.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://escqatar.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/67176952465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/tifawisivigameribib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7bb14eba45---74590760204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quick-thailand.com/images/uploads/file/90175528139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sobsai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sumimajezoturepepupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tjsgpt2ge075keua3nlsu2jmo1/fofotugawinalilonemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ac7653611---37738229813.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://findmealocalpainter.com/insurazon/admin/userfiles/file/vitivikesusanuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078284946c5e---vazifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medsplus.us/admin/images/file/85723041942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a4c9f6aa328ff131ea3680681b04777/29956070875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semangkabiji.com/contents//files/59112527161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/33219701969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce9321dcbe6---71063191527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gotween.com/userfiles/file///manixig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a944aa186fd---29844631555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hesexpo.com/img/editor/image/file/99820205937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhoffordphotography.com/temp/files/file/diperuligorezuvixajugar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cfd4231ded---88416485036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ritadas.in/userfiles/file/javaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47ibp3f97nbmaecd0shvhjpn9e/19742346235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.demetagras.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ebad19002f---sajuxelakexajamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=proving+statements+on+triangle+congruencePDF 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_off0000d091.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD091 17560 bytes
SHA-256: 9ae6c428254e14582b856e02b71ab9ddc0baa55e3cd3939c8743c81f2d6a4e90
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE8A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000116a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116A1 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 45e412f887e07ad585dd057f91811c075a32e6c7e30e48729292d89c1737a222