Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8637ca66a85a13b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-07-20 09:31:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 093842860bcfa6cb5bb6c78864b70525 SHA-1: cc27d0b9c5732991cdb7a17527107cb283dc6ea9 SHA-256: b8637ca66a85a13b44e0b0b6245043dad6b2979b244b472b04375e4a5bcfd094
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of link farms on disposable hosting further supports a malicious purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d4f66f29ad---45914370603.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a67550299d0---79428021185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kripasec.com/userfiles/file/defalurivuliviforova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uniontend.com/userfiles/files/vulunitakipavomigupufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somsit.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94542487709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23bj98sd1m0a9mn99pp7v5d94o/78227816119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073863998986---65219416661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentalrud.com/userfiles/file/jusinibitonodipivof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c5d2abfad---tadiwoxasonewaromeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3jr9lgls6n9m97k5iao1g1uikl/xobivasanikegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/km6eeh9gn9vr3s5fb30cdvje6l/boxijelunovajawemoruwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc643292964---sosonomozoware.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608385e343ad9---fujowivesiwed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fanaf.com/article_ressources/file/wivoxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608956fe5ba21---vekisida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac5b813127d---9959265225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97bfd89d3b0e68d4edcb305a7ecbe383/tefawuzutogeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e48ef87212---29485683621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://curvy.tw/upload/files/82226040266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencerenerji.com/resimler/files/82601973452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac20d2cbbf4---fozun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083826dcbc76---filusizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbchistoryonline.org/uploads/file/jitalubogeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ks6sobu3oitqia193cjsseqnb3/rivunarasubax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensiunea-escape.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41561723097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=50+cent+gamePDF 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_off00010a73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A73 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012285.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12285 17836 bytes
SHA-256: 0dd6386f1709fc7208d38ec05020089d4277fd89b5bf06b0ae796ec5bb73c74b
font_02_sfnt_off00015185.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15185 10204 bytes
SHA-256: c3e9113c4f72c97b902810810f2d536aca49e0ba9df9c079c1a01dfadaffa254