Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8ded04511525179…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-12 05:53:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e69779a0e7fb877c228555c2f6399980 SHA-1: 234363d683a86105a60914e80cde0c11555838a0 SHA-256: b8ded04511525179189606fece21303b4be48e6a19e5aadf6020f2147beb4ded
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external sites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The document body is heavily obfuscated, suggesting an attempt to hide its true malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://tuyothuyluc.vn/webroot/img/files/96683670054.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://3colorjazz.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/fonomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aceitunasdelguadalhorce.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31596830043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idrogastermoclima.it/Utentifile/FCKPage/file/pejurujifefiselu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamnonkitty.com/webroot/img/posts/files/kuguvibipubafiramoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protok.pro/upload/files/12767311415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teaterskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32318041064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gandolfiarchitetti.com/userfiles/files/lesibetifuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mu-rrrc.com/userfiles/file/virap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yeosingol.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210904_7613A6352A969757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/venajusafadamedufaxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613616820b6a2---41779460302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zohopin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/kulepojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trystsalonri.com/images/file/4087985201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ardennes.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96281156925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jugabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161392571bc9c7---fewuvaxazuributufum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/248692e624ffee0cbbadc7e774fdbb0c/25679017696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phaptangpgvn.net/app/webroot/upload/files/84651555991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myagenda.myagenda.cz/pictures/editor/files/19735662955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z500.si/files/vekofutape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jplus-ag.com/upload/files/BodyFile__613096B35B63A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzion-u-zamku.cz/files/file/nijafopepagad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=application+podcast+android+gratuitPDF 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_off0000cb4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB4B 19008 bytes
SHA-256: 801906e9216c900f8762ed0afbae136ed8e1a1365ad5bf53bccb87f6ce70f7df
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCC9 10640 bytes
SHA-256: b1d7d4e6f5829509ad70ed6f72aa2c81bba5375bdf98b5bfb7f24d7859601c60
font_02_sfnt_off00011518.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11518 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1