Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8cb0e0684ac84e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-09-18 16:49:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 02140d52c9ee136876aca819da70275f SHA-1: 56c226af85c2d70e0a90b1b1daf58d2777670012 SHA-256: b8cb0e0684ac84e2082d8ad3791729b72f2d4c297ec66f17818bd8a813799ecc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the PDF acts as a link farm, pointing to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous URLs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggest the primary purpose is to redirect users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://hagelkonzept.com/userfiles/file/93392278437.pdf
    • http://polishingmarblefloor.it/userfiles/files/jufovive.pdf
    • http://dezmaster.com/userfiles/file/70885733070.pdf
    • https://fotobolfestmeny.hu/mvc/userfiles/file/zobabifukakanozo.pdf
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruviwerukekofovobutopi.pdf
    • http://matrix-corporation.com/upfiles/editor/files/11770699883.pdf
    • https://weborder.cloud/userfiles/file///telupa.pdf
    • http://royal-pizza.eu/files/file/zomilugen.pdf
    • http://www.ettermanenterprises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zejaxuvexedizezefol.pdf
    • https://onsale.social-push.cc/data/fckeditor/files/23792118063.pdf
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139e95a679c2---29641998049.pdf
    • http://aedjtjdshbf.pretty-match.com/upload/files/mufotoganezulozemedet.pdf
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613924fc3261f---37926178124.pdf
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/87857065211.pdf
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/16199900069.pdf
    • https://juniorclublivorno.com/sitonews/images_upload/files/87875990231.pdf
    • http://wo-kop.pl/userfiles/file/fativubusemotisulizowev.pdf
    • http://suurelepa.ee/data/file/23276264735.pdf
    • http://goldmustang.com/files/files/17312386460.pdf
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613175087ab6c---giwuvabuzumobikexerexe.pdf
    • http://winkeleninzundert.nl/uploadimages/files/8052518656.pdf
    • http://aurastaffing.es/upload/file/39111602666.pdf
    • https://concurs-euclid.ro/upload/fck/89304957740.pdf
    • https://godahoian.com/app/webroot/upload/files/lapupig.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=android+driver+appium
    • 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_off0000cd09.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD09 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e51b.bin
47aa828829c290ba6332d15fb2e4d9a6b7952351abf5b7140510d508448533d6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE51B 16732 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011087.bin
19a12c691455930584eeae1739de0426d91366f481ab0e592efc01f4d81a334c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11087 10388 bytes