Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8b578a7ce9f1928…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-07-03 10:00:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 98198b54d0b26d795f79b99e7b96df3a SHA-1: 944f866636e0354a0e268a3b3e1589c5246bb485 SHA-256: b8b578a7ce9f19282aaf7b0c418ec5aa6e39ceb745481f6b9d959068194497fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple websites, with several hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of numerous links on potentially compromised sites suggests an attempt to obscure the true malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1143c2cfcf---41592265479.pdf
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f36ad8e49---wavuxew.pdf
    • http://funagamex.vn/PhuongNamGroup/userfiles/files/gigalerireza.pdf
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160744bb45418a---gojegagewalowuz.pdf
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbaea0d11040cedecf86283d7ebd3405/zovimepefoxuk.pdf
    • https://baxsporthorses.nl/userfiles/file/594354474.pdf
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/siuj9k987vr1tfrsaqm1dj3kk1/gujokoj.pdf
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/072cb0d1433089b9f3d241140c81c19b/95930504364.pdf
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/912b24fc52c4170a4542f0f5241efc78/runefudebosigimarakiv.pdf
    • https://gw21.ch/uploads/userfiles/file/86600340697.pdf
    • https://szabobuszrendeles.hu/files/files/19179565923.pdf
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608be3ae10130---99775529104.pdf
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b300ba62c58---kogevatoxelob.pdf
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/lejubu.pdf
    • http://m2m2design.com/userfiles/zagebixubuwokolazawokeri.pdf
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/809d5a2ba69ba7dad99ba5271cf9b290/sosarugolelirugisudoxone.pdf
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb6fe3c5b001a223bd35e76283c0316a/kutega.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+paint+pine+trees+with+acrylic+paints
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e4dc.bin
afd31e96b2eecd51314f8ba05b2835370605cc08a54b1b335df53e0792d55c0f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4DC 10660 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd49.bin
760db929aa4f78d0e29b3524d1151e7119685eb3429ecde4a1c6d03b4d3451a3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD49 17060 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000129ea.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129EA 16792 bytes