Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8372cab21c17093…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-08-21 09:50:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 4faf927ad8f0e2f7be1073d6ffc4a85a SHA-1: 7b2c5f4ea315173ae03a4f570a8a7d331b6fc1d4 SHA-256: b8372cab21c1709382fbd4536cb9bccdd8d48c0047e8c857268c2332e9ecd9d4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to exploit users by directing them to potentially harmful websites, aligning with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

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 http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8b66d6987b---takadatupejuwidibuma.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://shian-jin.com/UserFiles/files/33041776026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2311c56a9296e4019ed1c410806ec246/43829024493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sammycar.ch/sammy/sites/default/sammyfiles/newsletterfile/voletipavebejupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerhouston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97afeacaeb7ca5f039c596795f8d4bee/67372331580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iglozawiercie.pl/zdjecia/file/37718425462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfollowers.com/ci/userfiles/files/68090825675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanphongphampmc.com/upload/files/vupijofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konberdbio.com/upload/files/laxizilep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c5a9e94d2---tisasafalewepilekixorofek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe5bb7c5cec---86663089908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608222419b069---nowewolavejin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://candbco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48787380601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapalettedesarts.fr/gestion/file/bumofuruwurida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a84cee02197---59916534961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meganimal.pt/site/upload/file/87690893851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dce7774bcff---80425814159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f874347418---35317328020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paulbwatkinslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/mirevedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aceitunasdelguadalhorce.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69293887801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48d15dd28ea20cb1c42717fc1cc3c46e/32841130996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611ce0f987481---bedefiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanseniors.ca/userfiles/file/sanolin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ticketsperiodico.com/galeria/files/72200220558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d45fd90941---benogexelipoxumewomikewex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=solucionario+del+libro+estadistica+para+administracion+y+economia+de+levinPDF 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_off0000d96f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD96F 11172 bytes
SHA-256: a2083db1660b977f73b8c55d466c282e33be250531f9b81d5b3eb7dfef7cd4f0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f35c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF35C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010b6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B6E 17752 bytes
SHA-256: 04725eb4601a669f76a7737c9c06d049a80f20ef3e6754d9f4c6f966013f6968