Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8df6467f37af16fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.2 KB Created: 2021-07-08 07:10:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 3348befa2e87f600e8d3555c979d7768 SHA-1: 6819f54f8db68339bfdbd95d78e8ad2ded9e509d SHA-256: 8df6467f37af16fe905f6bc81512f51ff7cfee3d50b1fa939e38e3e41770eb51
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The primary function appears to be acting as a link farm to distribute traffic to potentially malicious destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb99976967014f064326fc3ccd2ce6fa/52545059705.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a797551305---54403822122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df6f5136f957c6f11383137b263b62c7/virizogaxajupakorufiwelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a61b1fd6c97---vobezizobazen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33b8fdb554f8419f89710e8819f95f4d/41516130510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinapogon.pl/upload/file/velewupafara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32b5c65f2e29b7adc70056ee281dd8c4/32617862877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68be94cfac04834c3f4a454063731a8a/datorugalobesarefogikulox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/dajebusisamosov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peaceinsrilanka.lk/userfiles/file/7411528512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qr8feftmqskotsvjb3rrn4n4if/tujokuwugonepikonoxesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tonystelly.com/clients/873487/File/37581447016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091aa48f1a13---divugidujurekiwelulufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michianaorchidsociety.org/clients/2/28/2832e32407c795c8d28ffe68102aa18e/File/60752811047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artbynela.com/uploads/file/75486575692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775e1f3bc7b---jowatudodulaxosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd871b5cb6---91397440693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/xifititimepaxujize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-carlshorst.de/sites/default/files/file/9142090650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trunglam.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/17282570837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satuldelut.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90481875993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scmsalliance.com/clients/864514/File/xigakijuwuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5bca53b818---digerexenejexilenasut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=alcohol+content+of+a+budweiserPDF 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_off000104e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011cf8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CF8 19144 bytes
SHA-256: fba8faeeadcce8b2c4de399389a2b925e1854d02f5876d1229c3db055f0e2e61
font_02_sfnt_off00014e88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E88 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 908abbed3e531c3eb5d7289e5d9feb51432dc6d13ab91f47046405333a7650f6