Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8ab785d9fe38b62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 06:59:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c7e07fca784c01af6a8800d5bb2e3af1 SHA-1: 75d450ef8503f4c86332afdbe4d76fdc76e259a5 SHA-256: b8ab785d9fe38b6294e5d36cc305e2babf65d2634406e392edd6e1d750ca75c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious or phishing content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the detection indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d358bbb130---xojifusixoxojunewalar.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ea54e637db876a95729dfb3b16e1d0e/mudewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/vuwuzekurumaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rozgarnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tulupopewebozakatugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/newojaxulalatuwitoset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogiovannone.com/userfiles/files/managutumar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okud-istra.hr/userfiles/file/30338755062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed52b50e48---ridodowuneri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://londonvipchauffeur.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b3037697b812cc4e1356d227e543c8b/lazuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c813sdsj4v8b9ka2bbpaj160b2/26935627950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aace0aae977---65301318645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071cdb9bf663---vaduzesatofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2f077e208b---50139957798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcifirsatlari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085df5db1360---69434342082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c99ad29c96---46575837573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7439f65ee016f3c34f98be20de425284/wakogasukekokinimolasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23095afc9ebb4b98920fde5c2a726f6d/rugimivamesepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/86147947148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orbitsecurity.qa/pro_mvp_tech/uploads/file/77590080834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b970d3c3dc997bea4c3638a779f8a68b/zajimisoradizewubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/90300698789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/13238271711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ho27gv3c913ob4tqo1m3jurpj5/kupimolewerilajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyzoan.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/satofepalatesimagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didopack.com/files/nemuforelovipavun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=god+repents+in+the+biblePDF 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_off0000fa2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA2D 16908 bytes
SHA-256: 76007ddaf18033bfbdd08704d25f23409363a91dd2b4d6e0563ce800db275936
font_01_sfnt_off000125fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125FC 10504 bytes
SHA-256: 213cad7da30d0cc154e66bf98c34a803df19bab2e311f1a05a8504ae993fde18
font_02_sfnt_off00013d85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D85 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1