Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8954a7d30022935…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-24 06:56:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 2dc8f808f0fc1df2039cd390fe20f5b5 SHA-1: d17c9f513ee9164849a8d00f7ea6c682bc2992a4 SHA-256: b8954a7d3002293575364b9366b8e53fa0cb0906e6d5f3b163299baf91c9236f
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting domains. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613002c05132c---22291355438.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://satunatc.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/momavepapin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotoprint.lv/downloads/file/3185749738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melabo.com/upload/files/988183282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savages.lu/imagesRTE/files/81291858684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/denudesejaxagexunum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sm.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wivuxibizukijepatevove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a867b648b4---silakogoduzikagalowudogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poliinc.com/upload/files/xadevajapapedinage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pellevah.com/upload/files/furaxononirutitedivuzelob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d261e676a2---76303952243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139a449037b6---bexenegesopexefir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semineebrasov.ro/printuri-fi/files/bodekovodaromafejega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suthuytinh.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/mepaditifutalaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infinijewelry.com/userfiles/file/67382897328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelite.in/userfiles/file/ruxelerijowazitunowuwux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreoltour.ru/sites/default/files/file/4739036045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mystruggle.uk/indigo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nijagibip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuoredicane.it/userfiles/files/nutamodilipugekil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakshimi-kaatsu.com/user_data/packages/default/imgfiles/3856211001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbeaindia.com/userfiles/file/43778788385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divyabodhanam.org/userfiles/file/49102435355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarmy-kamery24.pl/userfiles/file/jubapumaliri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=reading+qr+codes+androidPDF 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_off0000d48e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD48E 17792 bytes
SHA-256: 052185ecbe1648162d01ba19041b0afddac47dd599df80e8bef97d22ca64503a
font_01_sfnt_off000102a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102A4 10592 bytes
SHA-256: a0b71566c20505f4a828dd5de39b9629856d680e85aac3c7f910399acafbf366
font_02_sfnt_off00011a5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A5B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1