Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8ec313eab939d87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 04:35:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 18055c313a2824aaff279cf003d5ad66 SHA-1: 45f6816db3f11778e5cb1fe643801c0c2dcd8ac5 SHA-256: b8ec313eab939d87c5fa3c6cf08e6167547db39d95e41e13113bdebc2949a02d
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, specifically indicating phishing and Trojan activity. The document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the ML classifier's high confidence score strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://mahlkoenig.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/24060330141.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/saguruwegalifulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotellemaritime.com/hotel/upload/files/fazufegemakapejenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gemwares.com/userfiles/file/burigatolupajila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a31f9e082c3---15149071368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d85be16dd3a1f88df15d2d4cf2cf0e5/37154532638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morrisjones.co.uk/EditorImages/file/foziwawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vbge1e3gi1p474bmj2utscr62s/67135102213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lnpro.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xanedodizerusog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff2c5973da2e4f0f31cfe17379f77551/63931724378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pietroquatriniarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/68650115055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae53607804d9cb489320092e08c91793/46935281986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soles2walk.cz/data/file/getorivakijudov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsi-international.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/746343855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doublehappyvstheinfinitesadness.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c6313d5252---33237833187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bf1cdbe359---kafojukivok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/065c93843c736470a1b83a566499ec85/busunevowaxuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/jomutetevemojapeles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dialogueinpraxis.net/files/docs/57225386405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d23d3484ea---47228077908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatishev.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jefogexuxitar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://commonlawhouse.in/userfiles/file/xanusipepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bjr7mpvmt9oio46fjkdc2sp0r/56909250353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qkmedica.com/uploads/userfiles/file/tumujanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6lqu8c54th4581j8oo6vnherr5/17051398542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=levelling+pdf+slidesharePDF 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_off0000d53d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD53D 10584 bytes
SHA-256: b8f7eb61fe084e18f84629bb695ff0232371910e55dee460e02b2be398764a32
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED0E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010520.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10520 18312 bytes
SHA-256: affd74a1d84625de79749dbfe7328f1917c9883dbcc033d7b089bba6ee2be74e