Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8313dfe0b478bae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:52:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d15ee47f9240139edeb9c1c5e6bfa7bd SHA-1: 126ff8d34260c097c43d4a752be4d1211b2bdc16 SHA-256: b8313dfe0b478baedd3d5fe1080161117409a9d367b8e163b0100f3e59dd748c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or download of a secondary payload. The presence of numerous external links, many on disposable hosting, suggests a phishing or SEO poisoning campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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.twibiotech.com/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fezuzemebepexukadudo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dlt-nkp.com/fileupload//file/zuvezudesax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cea75b46d2c6031ee9cc5376cb241c6d/napisozanorofupebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160864b0cc7c11---18973161579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bronia.org/userfiles/file/dolejiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libron.pl/fckupload/assets/file/93088783797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eschool365.in/js/admin/uploadfiles/file/siromuxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salamino.pl/userfiles/file/bifotokimirogidomusireses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.htlexpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kalejudedokami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chono.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/2446520091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/anme41rindupt5rgbilqjlf9tl/medosotenukebixufapeves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2474a825a06a1aa28bc2d3e5a8fbebfb/firafugojoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w.scenekunstskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38922113892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0a876c4dfd---kewizeviwowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/720ba9bb553047f180d1867fd0b109d2/6588369347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079390e9f7c8---xixuxisawukefep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bartuceviri.com/userfiles/file/91519867954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flyags.com/editorResources/file///pejafidijaravaxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7pdtmtr4km2v9cjf5vku1oapl/dilofubukotagisezobidil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhopphat.com/uploads/files/7918560471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8d11e87fae204bfe88d14f1f13d2fda/jowosuwufelujoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b842da07420---80684135640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36cb7641dec32050d2865565c1edc4f7/gijesusowekalubuwiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heureka-cz.eu/files/viwegalopesigeregesonefap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steelfurniturecn.com/d/files/denuwud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=combine+pdf+files+into+one+onlinePDF 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_off0000d468.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD468 10568 bytes
SHA-256: dc28b3a0f9802796638245bbc7e17bdbd5bb944b1c3657dc3c84afe814686d3f
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC47 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010459.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10459 17112 bytes
SHA-256: 03046e74897039f01bdd23d2e27561bdebe967dad972c05fa471b062d8fd8de4