Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8d00452462e8a4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-21 12:09:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 5a33cd13a4cb2b86f3a38985ee4d21da SHA-1: 0fb3b611c72f3df6067d28ba6e5dd0e07b9712e5 SHA-256: b8d00452462e8a4dfbb32114940436ac6d9599ef2f03b5b608540288667104a3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://xn--72ca1bzcdf9cg5df4n5a8cei.com/userfiles/files/32078608009.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.waetsukai.jp/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90839633606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinag7furniture.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/94071589200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebal.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/xesudidasonagujapomakuzib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sofupingame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/74011995020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/467d6d4eb1b1de615c5f3c380479a844/1858904281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.info/files/file/petujora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b7da77588b9d3b9d3373a05179693f1/56272464851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsons.eu/files/file/89271234380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dautuck.com/uploads/userfiles/file/gixodipevudiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myarchitect.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ranogupedozoforuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falconartistmanagement.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jedekobipuwepamiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selapro.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xasejorowesonuboxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tungafilm.com/dorceiys/ckfinder/userfiles/files/masaninefefeditenape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ashasuchikala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nowesitijilodavog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smsalumni1971.com/apadmin/uploads/userfiles/files/98170150749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milliondollardesiclub.com/upload_files/featured/files/11498720128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fli.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/faxurifogerepenirezek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76b776ff6a92fd1c45e3eb3eef3dc816/75169352722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141fe96e9d3c---14170780265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0900107678.com/upload/file/linix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://georgewongdesign.com/gwd/upload/files/lawabizowirono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pre-www.bridge-academy.com/uploaded/ckeditor/files/loweforefivomaguri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gioiacompany.net/images/upload/file/gezedarijezikuzaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150005.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210914053600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asmitahrgroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kujupuwupani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=shakti+full+episode+coloursPDF 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_off0000d942.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD942 10880 bytes
SHA-256: c2a8213f39809799119055ec619b3178bd01f6e080d5c0a1e970c9bf5b7eec73
font_01_sfnt_off0000f283.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF283 18192 bytes
SHA-256: c242b423ade01ea00d140ecc0072e16c60eefb60e4e1c80f446da73ab84aacb6
font_02_sfnt_off0001226b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1226B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1