Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8d9a7ef8ca2ac63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-09-25 22:54:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: ba0877334a43e27324615c625ffce505 SHA-1: 405577c5ec9d6ea07666bbe8e106f24156d2730a SHA-256: b8d9a7ef8ca2ac63ffd3841cd8e8d902d311c2d86fb638d01902918a5889c6db
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many hosted on disposable domains or compromised WordPress sites, designed to trick users into downloading files. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and the presence of URLs with 'utm_term' parameters suggest a phishing or scamming operation. ClamAV detection and ML classification further confirm its malicious nature, likely as a phishing document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gta+5+android+apk+data+download PDF link annotation
    • http://leguido.net/files/31626484094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161357591e7099---divelesopuwunatedawazuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eortak.com/img/fck_temp/file/xubisonadowazawuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khunghinhdepphuctin.com/media/ftp/file/madiwebuzejokigaxarugufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiancfea.org/userfiles/file/49553895617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recviem.ru/img/upload/94303847797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haysalon.com/public_html/userfiles/file/sogonanomuxobadobomaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wefocusdesign.com/upload/files/26406325833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familie-schiecke.de/images/file/99289028814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreaslasnik.com/data/files/6124630414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpatswatertown.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wupekotojod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mami-m.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/92042429219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkimm.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16568903217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensiuneavalentina.ro/app/webroot/file/xevomogatasujuponojipug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.smartfutureexpo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nagefisedumem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614f3a6de6734---51145892395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danguykhoidoanhnghiephp.vn/Upload/files/272179447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honderhotel.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210904072023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loonbedrijfschimmel.nl/userfiles/files/34626152384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gokea.org/upload/editor/files/2424144736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theloneranger.tv/clients/loneranger/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fegowasitek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mellorymotors.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12826115735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148984dba694---88253322976.pdfIn 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://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_off0000aec2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAEC2 16152 bytes
SHA-256: 42d607e5f4079f1e4bab39b8137b7458b269a923369a312ebab05baaec738e7d
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000efc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFC9 10436 bytes
SHA-256: b793b45fca7e64edd2c6b7c8d5c999d270d6b67ca47466765e39df7d51316f85