Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2e80e1d49f806cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 01:09:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8d2855d60e688c04f5dc150c401be946 SHA-1: 9d12c3d8ededc0990c92f3bc3ce2d95f3430d5e8 SHA-256: b2e80e1d49f806cd8a21144b7ed7c861317a71bd96c6779935202dee2a5d2c96
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to domains that are either compromised or appear to be disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The primary function appears to be acting as a link farm to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

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 http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/2021592231249526.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://office-agglo-larochelle.fr/userfiles/file/40049336056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikitellirezistans.com/upload/files/48195265869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.corazondelsol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28819356122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solyaris.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zofusoxigamowupebasedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cabsfromheathrow.com/userfiles/file/54368573590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elturo.ru/img/upload/files/jijebepujotepenabizeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091dfef81212---61160402293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a4a23dc97a903973c7b086af52ca525/gibiraxefegasusabibij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://statsale.com/data/upload/ck/files/bixasuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823df90a6f2---jekidatiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d0d235afb098f7f93b72b90f77af882/fonatoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-5-9/20210509173434781264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokoladenfontaene.de/idata/45108188668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109527b6b3c1---74985559508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ctnphrae.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64829691412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608927eade458---finisesodigidimowerujur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattosushi.com/uploads/files/satob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentherapia.hu/files/file/titegutilefim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blossomtour.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210831_BD239170CE83A710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.com/images/uploads/files/55229733126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p34nint84opgd79mba60t9svvq/22364792342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://singer-island-condos.com/userfiles/files/59151049327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falls67.com/clients/50406/File/bosuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=difference+of+perfect+squares+worksheet+kutaPDF 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_off0000c3ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3FF 10956 bytes
SHA-256: a287a1b50f01de690de36839978ea1f1295ca66ff9a1cf246a3a265f9be04771
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD7A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f58c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF58C 17828 bytes
SHA-256: 6316c793e072d64638b093a11354cdde9b3609053239c2e5525bb9e0c36d5912