Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8259086c9ec345c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-09-15 20:26:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: c46fe180691453984695ae363608e111 SHA-1: 552d33d483c4ea174cb6bb48073bdc087f35afaa SHA-256: b8259086c9ec345c0992904057d62f09e58c5352f8601870053ac9d0b0b145f0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9894

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://holycrosshealthcare.com/userfiles/files/rowiwodedi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.recko.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lirezimegiziwinob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deesudcoolingtower.com/userfiles/file/lolal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modamoda.nl/uploads/pic_lib/file/68074088181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safarang.com/basefile/files/nedujefapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kco.su/userfiles/file/25579757646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traktorpulling.de/ablage/userfiles/files/gotujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salman-group.com/userfiles/file/rumixabexolol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giasidaily.com/uploads/userfiles/file/83883787566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mopi.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/widiroburobedirutesugapev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mkbeauty.vn/luutru/files/rojiwifosisadivopunomepug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronikavilla.hu/userfiles/file/27848007533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casasholidays.com/scgtest/team-explore/uploads/files/98015783187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ydyb.com/filespath/files/20210909032411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gelateriacool.it/userfiles/files/seroba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bepxuyenviet.com/upload/files/japagorigevilifozap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tabularasa.lv/sites/tabularasa/uploads/documents/files/59583014320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zniczekowalczyk.com/user_images/file/fixopasasawuwikexefem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cac227e90f29438067c95fd442e4567/tagixugorov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rfaaa.com/UploadFile/file/20210915162653660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suliaok.com/v15/Upload/file/202196131532210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d0e29bbb9a---pesufejelipujibumefekoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ain.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vakafowilavileves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atccs3.it/atccs3/fckeditor/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74714944473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137ff130d89e---wosurexetupizerus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161326af413619---segaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=egypt+celebrate+christmasPDF 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_off0000f369.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF369 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 55cd6cd22d529079112cfff5e1a15c2cb1cff0e30d77af375bdd3adc419b7e04
font_01_sfnt_off00010c3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C3A 21648 bytes
SHA-256: bf27b2011e8429e2bb1ba3c358ba4e42f9191c773f2128358e72313233ba8ec1
font_02_sfnt_off000144b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1