Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d060bfb8cf7e1cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-22 12:09:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 1ed929fab41ed56d2a88c182b4ffd7d4 SHA-1: be84423f1291839c626fdcef724661d4c4638b78 SHA-256: 8d060bfb8cf7e1cf88c5312d3be8e2daa76f079eae3bede81b20c4bdd87384e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised or disposable hosting sites, such as drafthe.ru and thanhlamresort.vn. The embedded URLs suggest the primary goal is to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=apps+in+your+phone PDF link annotation
    • http://zhihepvb.com/upload/ckimg/files/202109050738033623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eviljoy.com/UserFiles/File/95323833043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614aeef664d12---kukewudefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indikino.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35862210759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sonerofset.com/userfiles/file/19081720706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614288e7013d9---lipukalidejuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taechoclub.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210918_A457A60607B05CF0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartickgroup.com/userfiles/30488586354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlzj.net/upload/files/2021090408271441026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energosol.pl/images_cms/file/90375689019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.haztartasigepszakuzlet.hu/pics/file/belitikaxikukekiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meuble-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/rugape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gryf-wet.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48391395595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mardeestilos.es/fotos/file/kisuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcockeysville.com/uploads/files/tojizeruwag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheumatology.institute/upload/content/file/14399495123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210901_F4B070BC6DF06853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9igosh0l1m8giesg4sh8ib7sc0/gadawapulexofadilavija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aviseco.ro/userfiles/file/waxojaxelijobiwamudewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.com/data/cms/file/79806217658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daegyung.kr/userfiles/file/20210922032442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://officinedesign.it/userfiles/files/40612160175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoo-foto.cz/userfiles/file/5661661803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olsztyntransportmedyczny.pl/userfiles/file/rixilosoza.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_off0000d2fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2FB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB0D 18052 bytes
SHA-256: d7bd0783c45f0965a4b20573d7bf1471ce18d6fb789ec85a32a542ec3699e5d1
font_02_sfnt_off000119ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119AC 10236 bytes
SHA-256: feeddd65ae5082481d8a1d1ea1e2b8ebc6fcadaf52c8e03347ffeb3a05b3f547