Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8dff6265c2e9d3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:35:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: c499259760f1404bf6cfc2ca88eb5b7e SHA-1: f08ef4c382f8d2e3925e71199d54dc65c4a0b391 SHA-256: b8dff6265c2e9d3a8aba3c324de69595943aa2417195524d59d499fb02330f63
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating malicious content. It contains numerous external URIs and link farms pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites, suggesting a phishing or SEO poisoning campaign. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest the document's purpose is to redirect users to malicious websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=math+symbols+and+names+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://svingenieria.cl/userfiles/file/mabujunozel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee3442334a5---49355990270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indoorclub-informa.com/boletines/img/file/wozepidewajurijaxofome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamdecal.com/Images_upload/files/xifegudifigunek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipayon.com/root/FCKeditor/file/jevuronepuserusudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m6de5800mao35ohi1kcom37e04/bivada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ogledalata.bg/uploads/pages/files/zisuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41443171625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62cfa380194b872811218d9aab47eb24/meporub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/800eb25dddf035b3bf9c96a0ae188af6/tejogodekimavoval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccjsc.com/images/uploads/files/38250708023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cda180f0643---ratabidarupipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae4e76828710e5b52ed2c629d86b9326/xakuxipudilekabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyosung-gulf.com/uploads/file/nedojije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9517d4a215---23307159605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bijverhoeven.nl/uploads/files/44223822475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/122460813ca48ae17073c1c4f1b582b5/65651107362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmic-kino.ru/sadm_files/pokaxijerisus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://say-international.eu/userfiles/file/zidavobadebipos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asavn.vn/uploads/userfiles/files/toxefewasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d23554bddc54124afd55c4ec0fb1ca2/buluzevibog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f990cfc79c5---gafimafugavitekarasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160808514788d6---totopunoseximexikobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metrocars.london/survey/userfiles/files/futapar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tm7oljejvqaqiothflee7a11ie/24643465302.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_off0000e8ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8AD 18752 bytes
SHA-256: 4eec1508684cab93c86baa2908cea1b48791a73886a5c6d5a515107291fb1636
font_01_sfnt_off0001197d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1197D 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 7e849e7961b77e315a1dc109e1de3b2676ff94a883962831957d4dea271a29c6
font_02_sfnt_off00013215.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13215 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1