Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4e8bc972bda8aac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-07-02 13:52:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 0bf6dc55809185a4b09c1485cf56b8c6 SHA-1: 5fd1e9e6af96aa656a39268315396e18e002fcf0 SHA-256: b4e8bc972bda8aac9fada27c43e2ec78a4ede9d416f7933cd1679007832a8d7f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or potentially malicious websites hosted on various domains. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to distribute further payloads or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a1ce71c1fd1fbedc1bfe6324e88ac9c/6550187406.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thegibbsfamilyreunion.com/clients/d/d9/d929505c7faf6263097cc97620c39d65/File/8088364656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2a755a2c78---nupotur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atraba-holding.com/userfiles/file/17957555108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160910ca0c3be2---zijabuvilawubujozip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hydro-tg.pro/upload/file/papemuwugidojidajafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9145fc765dcb9af5f03dc0e9dc05e769/40413449987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electroagro.es/pub/files/tibafuxojegisita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o9t0q998e21f8q9uk2qqtured9/wojufizoxirefagalajet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ilnfdae78kqs48227v8b7b2ok0/71900708390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c97bb0e646---51710939366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jbdclothiers.net/emailer/userfiles/file/72764282756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0a4f3c4454---13753150154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/jepepulirudijipudud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/295be7a9p73fva9c9g6n6pbg65/74624248476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b6du9f9u6mn8bmn9ha03uf1q5/resudofajojixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rc-modeller.se/images/file///pizitunorepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odpadykj.cz/UserFiles/File/witefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auto-rujo.com/images-editor/file/xopozitumaxelotetol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa3485743b---80358966385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608491df5f33e---70287127926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsa.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/munatufop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982e03b9bf6---40477570888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=form+1+for+medical+certificatePDF 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_off0000e1d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1D6 16664 bytes
SHA-256: 1650526b5198c12d9de2bdae4e2a5fb8f955eb48590239d87d3f56d4a3eb96d5
font_01_sfnt_off00010d29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D29 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012540.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12540 10392 bytes
SHA-256: 4dd4c03667a528199f0db098aa9fe75c92d6f1a525977f4ae9d0e673aea11fc3