Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b8ab0c3a26cbb4f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 00:56:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 4d14cea8a2dfc25e225bd740fa44dd9a SHA-1: 9316a14ab1c2679216e6f39f874aa81d113d455f SHA-256: 9b8ab0c3a26cbb4feb9c8eb3c46a3f3743d1ce8212602f92565d7e9e3286d9e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's used to distribute further malware or conduct phishing. The presence of multiple unknown URLs hosted on these compromised sites reinforces this assessment.

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 http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efbbce0aff---jixerapuvadejexuz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vietdubai.com/userfiles/file/difefisaraxojometuzejiliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611f7e93a4cbf---65105495531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a21fab64eb7---80968289336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjsixiang.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210625002400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608460d23172b---30278542847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medprobr.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4870a95b6d873ed7c61b0b603534f117/buwewosonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vishwkarmaenterprises.com/webroot/img/userfiles/files/52143524560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scheiden-maassluis.nl/uploads//file/99115429427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160858610662bd---42502091839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p7l4j6fgs8eaofn66krdrproa1/zezizeterekop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/solifafosib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuttydog.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/salupexutiwolibamozuris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metricgroup.it/uploads/file/jatavajutosuxoxikur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bouncebodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/lomazevikoruxurag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7be6a250b82645544e6ea306e059fe5b/jeranomijavuropigugoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elnativocoffee.com/silver/upload/files/53719897460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nadinerogger.ch/userfiles/files/vokamerafad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoitruyengiaocodocvietnam.com/uploads/image/files/denepineteditu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-belgie.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83753834107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vigiweb.cl/dinamicos/files/file/74424563403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapsalonindex.nl/images/uploads/17163584489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091eca92ba4a---livudinuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093d3333ec67---384479943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garantc.ru/userfiles/file/vimijawotipira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=calculator+with+regroupingPDF 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_off0000ec6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC6F 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 531fe9296c975bf0b18f276888a13384e0191bd699cd8ce54c1398c9e48c4a30
font_01_sfnt_off00010501.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10501 17664 bytes
SHA-256: 3a1d542f3a8fa612fd455a2768d167ad41802337253f74b276a33fbddce66e87
font_02_sfnt_off00013324.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13324 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1