Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8d65463b8f57c67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 00:22:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 6d4844182d6dd534952124cc8ed8fe4d SHA-1: 94244df25a9a8484653f444e4d0f7640b8369bf8 SHA-256: b8d65463b8f57c6765724aca5c61b57bc04caa2ec9d005fbfc93f531cb67d03e
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading malicious content. The presence of a security bypass instruction further indicates malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://sunwisechem.com/Uploadfiles/files/41887435265.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aurorabersinar2.com/contents/files/11063674349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doktor-okonski.pl/uploadimg/file/gezizoletuwemeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd56e8e4182f29033b791bca7563841f/tedisujupujenejigis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/giworefexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siamsankyo.com/Uploads/file/21401277520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nkcophs50threunion.com/clients/0/01/014062e559e26c1cf0711bcec4e573ae/File/46043858059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/56834001396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ld18rsqkj14tt1fkk01jueb5rh/89690017639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609489c245000---nadugututatuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdblue.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30038629805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2aa9007c08e1912f898ac82f930c230f/35123021445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinegypt.net/userfiles/file/wagafozerigowudojanifoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visualarchive.bg/files/64210110597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inncredel.com/uploads/metobunotos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2na757nqb1vh9pbbnn7cta56t0/38381655950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shiksha24.com/userfiles/files/vabuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/modupesavezata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oguzlarotomatiksanziman.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/fodigiwelakuzajamoraboxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/46568349482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oteaexpert.fr/cite_imgs/file/raragesopanelowasanujeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edb2a6e632b10de444190a8530f588c6/pomikobakaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nevisnews.com/userfiles/dagoxipebijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a65089bae0a0e010327f882321659b9/samurefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dwhs79.com/clients/15834/File/moxanunizajagabedagazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=swords+and+sandals+3+download+full+version+freePDF 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_off0000e884.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE884 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 6d6bb4fd64743ec53f33e9bea21115d8c9f1d972f60ea4a08270c6c1e6bf533a
font_01_sfnt_off00010167.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10167 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011979.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11979 18152 bytes
SHA-256: 6b33895ab886c488091d79db892083628ea12bcecb1291d720a18e1d7ddab68c