Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8460308bc06aa76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-07-19 06:52:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 7106b31180c7f542f4f4c72ce5522445 SHA-1: 6edc69d4ea8d6d7fe4268b5a702dce4a17b22ab6 SHA-256: b8460308bc06aa7694f1458e6f6e33448d9f0ce4dd41905b91f04386b57ed127
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of specific payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://semangkabiji.com/contents//files/bodupupolav.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://saharun.org/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pajuluro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvitraders.com/files/58481514111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1e9a7281ed---befenefogux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/tepofuvunupunoduwuwek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bt53lfkp616gcqohmsugtkrrm6/sejunivediladogopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbe464ad993fe50df8eb8b5f61952f9a/64827956099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12a866415e15f871d3f05445cc4b7a37/levevobadojedalamowetur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba7fe36be40---vusuwemeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/90576265728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askort.pl/Upload/file/piwavegija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/92995428590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ede16aca2c---jabisebudogokejal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9621bb0fb8---42292821308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sca-kc.com/scauserfiles/files/51245055664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caudafotografia.com/userfiles/files/lojojurajemivegefuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d73245b8314acee1125dfc6fd7312158/goxagarenipef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97fjadl5to1863qje5j026gcd9/lelafulakewisiwomep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fd0f1e30e4e5027a64b8db3f3c866d3/dugok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/68237842536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074068f9ea3d---merapesajosizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd5b39d0c1---kelagikokazut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobraukraina.org/sites/all/sites/dobraukraina.org/files/lanowirolamedikuzevelaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=summit+to+sea+angleseyPDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4f0ab6b539ed66786ceff3da4eb8c25/tejefisada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e24a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE24A 17720 bytes
SHA-256: e8f675998953d3cc8496ce894c616a4e63113d3e9b6eb6e1ea6e901478e07fe0
font_01_sfnt_off000110d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000128e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128E7 10640 bytes
SHA-256: d02202ed6c781e1ba11a8eefcae229b5bee9123e57d5c58a42b6a206b3e8e407