Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8d4e78af2b3737f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-06-11 13:11:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0ee483c85b79a43fb765ca311f7803fa SHA-1: efc35b553b297451002ea95e91036a38524aeef0 SHA-256: b8d4e78af2b3737fea86eaa7e5b2002e6d9ebecea3a0409dae940819030fdcf6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The embedded URLs likely serve as lures to redirect users to malicious content, potentially for credential harvesting or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nursing+diagnosis+for+syncope PDF link annotation
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vtjntg1jv6ssgc2h8m3mgtd355/18591630107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kcequipment.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17aa06a57ce94293e8d02f9cfb3d6eba/setegifurozowugesejuwifup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f6827a5216---95673167433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/40193089804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7r0qupm85ts9fj4770838faov7/bukurisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2d288094f6b6e0cb002875459c2cbcc/7818350766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midel.me/userfiles/file/98152197997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094dea7acb86---zizibujigujiroburuzoxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/im38cdrdie9odbuinidasuip60/78029682028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6deda323c0---riboxukizigojan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab708c1618c---11164146462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086962bc9d42---jikuwokakifinabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983ec4e9c5e---91674229565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j9fjl61l3frsl98okik14784dh/resodigeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074811e2bcff---4820820184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e6ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6CA 5360 bytes
SHA-256: 90d1a7238c81628a3919f359ee1597dde9a6290528ebe409e94ab714e5d2fed6
font_01_sfnt_off0000f92b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF92B 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 5a62438e7c07ce93612d273e1837c272aadb03ec531f7423b613b75122dfa501