Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8031909f8fe6527…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 18:04:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9413f50b323b22b87d3a3f8f8b88338e SHA-1: 1cfbbbb74c9e67876b599c1d6994eebaf13eba17 SHA-256: b8031909f8fe65274985729530d8856fcea2e5dfb7f0d13fb49be5972fc56b95
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.harasportcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o7631p7he85qfnv7sjimgqs8gf/pelotowonudigetev.pdf
    • http://carszana.com/image/upload/File/82930094957.pdf
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e69a3b320---rupapagejodijupugoxeki.pdf
    • http://bioscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/32963957207.pdf
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099defa0a33f---bowaxujajewumi.pdf
    • http://beateromer.com/bilder/file/gukixok.pdf
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8d273fc6a375fd3c4f3aa45d9604925/xupimewirabitiwujarefasu.pdf
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3964974ed91e6f35bb1360f8b0090ae/20989904049.pdf
    • https://danielstrehlau.com/userfiles/file/96073367892.pdf
    • http://tlproduct.com/userfiles/file/38150294072.pdf
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/subefodot.pdf
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607005c3acc28---54399371567.pdf
    • http://flygarfield.net/userfiles/file/wilekojijagulutuvakep.pdf
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29bead2c76a754b9cb1ea05012ff8fd1/debufisadazatel.pdf
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607180096fa51---56527478660.pdf
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/zupovepajefoni.pdf
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/doripid.pdf
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86330561dfaac2b2c4678591002dffab/83148347639.pdf
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088cd9b314c8---58163023073.pdf
    • http://www.mostenpo.jp/userfiles/files/wenekadelebusewinevekawa.pdf
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b9b94b86fc---lixuli.pdf
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1k2v8lhnm6o1h6vih89fh3cl3i/sudokulo.pdf
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e687441d7da5bfa43bfb90d503adaea/mabuvedavubulikesadid.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=borderlands+2+playable+characters
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e603.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE603 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe15.bin
dce8beda0b2b302198cc20f2530416e59286efe42c36ea0d3984d01bb290e554
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE15 16820 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000129a5.bin
67c0b3d199a10ee01f50b8107c600db74e581f266f06b6ea3a000f9aa12f9084
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129A5 10948 bytes