Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8a4b5d65fd2e691…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-08-04 11:57:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: a1209e98e3ed97dfdeb50ea5f59ec01f SHA-1: af04591d02251fbedbc3303558ee2a26c0a670ee SHA-256: b8a4b5d65fd2e691a19a3b55b21cff8b32b73b86d6e28609948dcc827f3dadc8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many distinct hosts and links pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external URIs suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://schokoladenfontaene.de/idata/45108188668.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dcadf83861c---89756394447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075de817cef9---jepusubazuvorejimefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160ac72bd42fcb---26647697547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l2b4a44anrthqog1d982o2togu/sidolifuxibigaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/kelerudovawutimafoxinup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/628d7d9b002936f723abeebff5f17ce7/91521242721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609495e235ab7---gikevobonebuzunixozuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32386d6acec5bb8db80ace2f69dcf87f/renunivimobafuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.de/userfiles/file/wafibesajatofinitogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nagsa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46246986074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atrsara.ir/resource/files/pezomijidajomubodizikos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070bc52aeb51---65120519037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kabelkyaobuv.sk/editor_uploads/files/76095353154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochisushi.nl/survey/userfiles/files/35409186493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f9b3e59eb42a3bfa0dff6d1f36bdc62/58881464355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestuby.com/userfiles/file/nexawefuwajawur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbox-technology.com/upload/datoteke/zofotiwulutanoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettorobertafasola.eu/userfiles/files/50905421247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibleyestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gufasebaxanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackshirts1962.com/clients/f/f2/f245580d3072b78cda2271cf7a7e3f61/File/67899852794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoradiator.mn/uploads/ckfinder/files/pokikorexokofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e11a81a936---nalulaboroxupov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5cfa93733598d7831906ee90c630f57/wonopobiraxojogorobasufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://domilot.com/uploader/files/wikid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=tremble+mosaic+lyrics+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cdae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDAE 16732 bytes
SHA-256: d21fac0bf4073abeafafa0277b3fb4968052c9ea5948c42d927fe056c997e5df
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000111ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111CA 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 7f60a80f3446cd564a1fd91560006b0dc06ffd2a2c4b0753b81bca291b52fae7
font_03_sfnt_off00012a73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A73 16160 bytes
SHA-256: 27fa49ca30b1f57c6e4f8b99ad1f73ead7010ce1f191e20d716503af09158f46