Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8897208a8db153e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-08-28 15:33:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 97214b42826ee41923d3b9e33e6d4c8d SHA-1: b7aefd207b8260e7288acc6e2a4471ca06ff09d2 SHA-256: b8897208a8db153e8e9dd0db52c18255933950db66b4fe57e762ea00a4986caf
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://giga.sk/storage/file/lobovuwetewuvuripe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210531200446241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070d94ea7019---fowasekazadasivafaxelatid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3984eb1fa9---95355046874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webursitet.org/Files/file/9660560918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac90fb5da1a---73601500686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adarshvidhyasankul.org/userfilesfile/21328064326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbidiensino.vn/media/ftp/file/28924750499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hidramaco.com/files/files/sivedowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairmonteast1975.com/clients/0/01/014dde3c838f86fef2ac1d31a86c415b/File/28007648030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160783fdaac7de---76147335411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sonntag-immobilien.lu/userfiles/files/bolovewokaxokaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9253d5d91af677784efce54c9841fd6d/tokexolufivipiguvubub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marymo.ru/uploads/files/37767684106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f9e14a759b0d47445678396303dbbd3/90079629361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086125ca43f0---wogewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160807d640880e---45048139205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd5b2e4d3c---gugijedusulagigegulem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tekkoo.net/images/library/File/nowomep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/solozetudonuvixoxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be6f05090855b5136cc69ba1f91b5bd3/9295121191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liantoong.com/archive/upload/files/lopas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=easy+steps+to+chinese+2+workbook+pdfPDF 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_off0000f0e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0E1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000108f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108F8 11204 bytes
SHA-256: 99ae023688982d0ee8cbc0bb5efa3d9fc435c43d5a6405f682dc0337864ab33e
font_02_sfnt_off00012312.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12312 17836 bytes
SHA-256: 599eebe8004dbd5683d5c5cac1e0955ded5f3334f6ddcda493a7a4960d7244e7