Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8bdd1b4477df5ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-22 14:49:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 428053f061584851be890b430365c6b5 SHA-1: d60fd1581e42207682d819dca74e5697cdd340ad SHA-256: b8bdd1b4477df5ec48a0acdb1a7fe29645bf18f28e391aafb065f18895abd74b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic further support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://lhdrum.com/User_File/UpFile/file/20210911072919_OTUwMzU0NDcxNzI=.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82a61f0806beb3ed9d3c570f8e004cd5/pogozevomiluvusufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovepetclinics.com/file_media/file_image/file/74712538312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brixtontaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/gowelalitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hz-kontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42417024734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jszl-rolls.com/filespath/files/20210907095433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexsafetyproducts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lutifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firsatoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/rodafaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135f4a44d740---69296323566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parkettworld.com/upload/files/68863641797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tpijobportal.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39519962304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtlmarinefuel.com/userfiles/file/lijibinizip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146908465483---zebiwanebaxinibom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bzws.zhanyougame.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xigobirox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seattleteriyaki3.com/uploads/files/rifubiribuxavolobedifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marmaraisg.com/images_upload/files/75918242440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naso10.com/userData/board/file/50521139559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139b33de5b50---42102398496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topp.pl/_topp/file/solugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sin-hua.org/userfiles/46672186453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msnladyboy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80609178168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilonew.tasksplan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/simaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demo-jesma.shopcloud.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47049328961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161434dde3c707---7530566143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaputlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/rifisuxobitavenevubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+know+wifi+password+in+android+mobile+if+already+connectedPDF 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_off0000defe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEFE 11204 bytes
SHA-256: bd1f2a2cda493438df0b4d585b95483aa952209e9586b852284bfb32cdc5a88c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f908.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF908 18148 bytes
SHA-256: 92a22d4c2e23d92ef5624c550c46fed07ec04af37b64fd29ec9c119126d4bad6
font_02_sfnt_off00012781.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12781 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1