Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8bce0685a1f8b26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-06-29 09:43:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 61fd85f036080163c63eeb704a680b8b SHA-1: de1cb5b581d798a5e2d98af43200acb55773afd0 SHA-256: b8bce0685a1f8b2692f696409a741e1ae044a93622e1ff8736b560d99273f777
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a pattern of using these sites to distribute malicious content or phish for information. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution point towards a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://jatyn.cn/upfiles/202105/file/1620911746.pdf
    • http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/lipofowobegabakeloduxago.pdf
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rader5g4mstekqlu81bonchnuc/11930974662.pdf
    • https://pharma-tools.eu/galeria/file/dumexa.pdf
    • https://nevisnews.com/userfiles/dajaxaselowe.pdf
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3fb59c3dfbe6138d0a00b6d53c1e9a7/17460431360.pdf
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/91582376239.pdf
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160783dbf41a63---33907427447.pdf
    • https://sp-pir.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f6ce49f53784398339541162676d114/77449688911.pdf
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ron821lfogrcc3463k0tqe22q3/wavosidibelujogomuvig.pdf
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/57983582282.pdf
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a168e18552191e68fc9e8aa29167fd44/zejofutej.pdf
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4017961646---64760153263.pdf
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f1d6c70df4---nerunedexogop.pdf
    • http://aiskreunion.com/clients/b/b4/b417c2091670ce0b0d78f4b231aea02c/File/fazipalikeramute.pdf
    • https://gadd-asso.org/userfiles/file/bamokimir.pdf
    • http://www.motorradfreunde-toggenburg.ch/up/files/77396814244.pdf
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ab9c7779c---xogoweruwiti.pdf
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/brgb0fjv3c9b3iatmceh3eql7f/legamiberefabedanaxov.pdf
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/jomagorisunoj.pdf
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6489a79e13233cf32259624ab741d451/35068727582.pdf
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982ff6cc2c4---bidivaboxusafe.pdf
    • http://huiking.cn/uploads/file/031418202004.pdf
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fp5dpogk5c2jn6k6cnl2pv1qm0/kizisugifabazedonetasi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=weschler+nonverbal+scale+of+ability
    • 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_off0000d1f7.bin
e7adb0394453937044038547f895408869f77997b4d49cb71f31966db8dc651f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1F7 17416 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fede.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEDE 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000116f5.bin
9b9abecd547bfb10130eaacc0d387a257f17cf052371ffebc64aaac6e1507998
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116F5 10748 bytes