Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f6f87d241b92083…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 19:58:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7887d54086575fc91aa1b5d15bad092a SHA-1: 976d778112ed5198c641c2bef174d68ec1e52c10 SHA-256: 8f6f87d241b92083d68e9f87e6276c6de46866415de12c06bc94bc34eba6f871
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests the document is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=manual+passadeira+a+vapor+britania PDF link annotation
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3def615a2f---ruvejejidovapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://distriparkbotlek.nl/userfiles/files/befajokotoxemitunado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2lo8m96u674fctnrvlsao15m24/18561966987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a28f82e2d94---28747493130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7a668df4c---79727641671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ace67a1602b---61014919270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettynblue.com/upload/fck_img/20210731/file/76118071373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e09fd623dd---nexuvimukunorus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c096f2b5f8768b0b2348ea7f80da49e8/7557500787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drwatsonsr.com/clients/2/2b/2b9a0cf27321ceab3a47fbd10bf94d34/File/venodubaful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c01i4itjutlecid2u1jsa31dq/mufefizebari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editionsitaliques.com/userfiles/file/linadige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078efe8e43ed---mimuvibupanijadun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalyanestate.com/userfiles/file/masosigagidezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thankschicken.com/uploads/files/3441072549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chukgoobok.com/files/fckeditor/file/15593087610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinapogon.pl/upload/file/16317367200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tiande-global.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22802054152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henskeschildersbedrijf.nl/upload/vukaxivesoxoladez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d99ca2d4bb---fanuruju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63a0c073e3fbb14f21184e2589642155/zoxefedazasiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanphamhanquocymy.com/uploads/files/7760968236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc4c46d427a84dc48d8405a9dbbe24f6/wenoximurozaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160708eeded7b4---miroxovugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eg7udlse356mcrctigst8c3n2e/23689218516.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_off0000d87a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD87A 17820 bytes
SHA-256: 44417f8accbb30dff3b79b89fa888c2acad808f8d6cdc1ae69e9257200db6c32
font_01_sfnt_off0001062d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1062D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E44 10684 bytes
SHA-256: c6590e0018368cab18ffc83ffce7112395bd1f7b9065c58c917affd9ea842dfc