Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f6fdc25f7540c66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.3 KB Created: 2021-08-03 10:35:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: b8bcd443cbaca5fbf4b84f54c0714439 SHA-1: baf245380d90d63c777401681da27d88120cdc0e SHA-256: 8f6fdc25f7540c66e924caf9e0b7c39037e6e79f8bf520d5aa66ffcfbc38aa95
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics indicate the PDF functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of PDF link farms often involves JavaScript to redirect users to malicious sites, hence the inclusion of T1059.007.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://siam-royal-view.ru/data/files/66556697437.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/jovuximanosiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasvaripalmuzeum.hu/upload/file/90793603475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geasit.it/userfiles/files/wasuzebuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fecirturizm.com/resimler/files/jelifumisut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tumwebthailand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jabijavoxiraridafub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/36571846949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pfidej6jeps8g9o2u3g4v2urp8/77294064711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://silga.ca/userfiles/file/fibelenunurul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aparcaderoshaddaichile.cl/uploads/images/files/ritolenetiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediaget.ru/userfiles/files/xalitajimopuraruvub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.com/imagenes/file/vibotixapabigagorodowal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ecd7bedaf0---84469648548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingenermarket.ru/userfiles/27235818463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lohs69.com/clients/82366/File/48113787510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mudrkanuch.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/1386984222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratsimae.eemedia/contents/file/44612210838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lionsmarsala.it/userfiles/files/79929518544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americanpetrochemicals.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/82739217588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjkxmy.com/upload/files/202107292147203058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q16ceqt7i9l0nb7c9c9fo4e0t2/29847648913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/bimewutikojulemin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carriewoodfamily.com/clients/5/5b/5b9f2fb360c4065436fb7fe1267c3612/File/82007879455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chhsclassof70.com/clients/1/1f/1f6d1b94cf555b90b9f410dfa82aea5f/File/32684037741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c2a1060c6770097e2de727fd55fe862/93835824318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=gta+vice+city+100+mb+download+for+android+apkpurePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_002_off0000d2f2.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xD2F2 29976 bytes
SHA-256: e6bc53209311ca51091e4955f74574b5ade7e525f8b26d8d50a551a31fa0e75c
font_01_sfnt_off00010866.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10866 17924 bytes
SHA-256: 0a8e1368b1cd09eca251195cffdb2c0dedae89e7bd64c01e61b65820cfd2a6bb
font_02_sfnt_off0001360d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1360D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00014e24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E24 11424 bytes
SHA-256: e33821ab7ad4395ed2c741d9ceb2729460ee35d600c0c9fe2d955c1112d58cb3