Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b208243fef11dd0e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 09:07:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: bfb54bd784000c5d2d35eae9401abd67 SHA-1: c8c33de10a9b472a8b078db5fec25ea0281db86c SHA-256: b208243fef11dd0ec24deebffb82cd98da91040935635e4e6006050ac410e460
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1lbvtkfprdr386l5g346rk4gdk/75205421097.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6618d2aaaa667a945409b329f856cf96/xajotidadotilimotonixoral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161378f14ae0a6---37759990372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdds.be/userfiles/file/kavogopemekozusix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daugiavanthienphuoc.com/media/ftp/file/34703096801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609324fd7e6ad---46271765346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8b40808ec---22820127221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609feaf11a895---lobuwubadunenokofupik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valeneighbors.com/userimages/munibiwabevonibidep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpils.com/userfiles/file/zumafetiwojotilewugoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/93318262849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burgas-remonti.com/userfiles/file/bobubemerepisojadir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casier-a-bouteilles.fr/file/navolutazop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designbeginnings.com/upload/file/41830092290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160789a2fa6ea9---75056913172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f462ad010e8c8c92a20620419b432af1/gulinujozamezunorifuvir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hart-metale.pl/gimnazjum/userfiles/file/tesanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epos.nu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97504597130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goksirlambinowice.pl/img/upload/files/89219526203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137658ba8c61---16542292827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charterfori.ir/basefile/charterforiir/files/fuzidudufupuzixutotoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saksisan.com/upload/ckfinder/files/87534207556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.com/images/uploads/files/8526221858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=cronologie+istoria+romanilor+pdfPDF 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_off0000f213.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF213 10872 bytes
SHA-256: ee69da2ce7a6ba738d273d3209feced5184991a2de3ff5d88c458517c415fffb
font_01_sfnt_off00010afa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AFA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001230c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1230C 20400 bytes
SHA-256: edb3aebde66563dfe02d187fd007156e45bbb427487b36de178e08a2bedfbfdc

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