Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d2bb08105ff4c45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 09:23:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: fbdc11eaea78fc4c2ad061f47ce4d901 SHA-1: 6c17bb38fa401fb646e7e66c8150be14c9500efa SHA-256: 8d2bb08105ff4c450a526d1c9921c2c22dd6b0ac4e633f4874bf8999efa434e4
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple disposable hosting domains, a common tactic for phishing and malware distribution. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a method used to bypass gateway security. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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 http://samnakthodrahassob.com/userfiles/file/kududokeruda.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c54d09d46ca3294b24e89885b3cf6b0/bikubezutovedogafugutal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fajanav.com/aym_image/files/76630617079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gallerylingard.com/uploads/file/75168669903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1b045e88ac---lexipogivekab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acupunctuuryao.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59635678871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fba16b40203ab7a56cc4cc8242546857/28687427062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d90pqqvhi8bnprhhbqbirlja7/rifajomed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perilatomsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75280169137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamishehbaharcarpet.com/My_Project/Hamishe_bahar/ahar_img/files/18169203349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b518930b1ab---fupodojuwutivotamuxola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fcd4c7403e---kowowevuwivinovem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yugang360.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-19/20210819024152991596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/226e43c5ebc6c1601111b90dc696b832/43790323106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86d563db661e5b2b41a1761c0b62d04d/64565649444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlapcongtykiengiang.com/upload/ck/files/49779133296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vandervalk.reviews/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/35860598184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610039df640af---38889542298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fef20dfd2c---juboxivew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/249be0a70ad193ab83400d26d0b2a29c/26426911127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pj1na90tpdkphr8gosoqnug7r7/45867982731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.com/uploads/ck_editor/files/tugolosimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=switched+rack+pdu+apc+manualPDF 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_off0001162d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1162D 19320 bytes
SHA-256: 6801ced29b6f786688cabd435f4110ef3d3f2825f0de15ac2c8c26aa5833bf54
font_01_sfnt_off0001483d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1483D 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 11d79cc635b616ad5c49336ace802948d10ab2477eb5700ad2efd02c0f69afd8
font_02_sfnt_off00016120.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16120 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1