Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8f2d0e156024c13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-06-17 12:02:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: e0999c13db850df260f45795058cf3eb SHA-1: 7342794f82a829f776e3f56506856547b923ffc8 SHA-256: b8f2d0e156024c13246990a176d80ddf4c178fc86fc171efccf1ebe53d9352a4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or phish for information. The presence of 'concat in vba' in a URL suggests potential obfuscation techniques that might be used in conjunction with scripting, although no explicit scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=concat+in+vba PDF link annotation
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b9rbl7peqvfus094uoo3ecch3/94763479835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cad96fd783f---jepafebileruxivapabaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lolakarimova.uz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23532543529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a68991fdbc80548a39d2ae2b5b6bf045/xerulamoludigixij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/samafupegof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ec13a74abd---zezaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a92ab3d66c7026307ec68878331f29f5/zolevurilumelefepilevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rollfactorytogo.com/uploads/files/kezinesojofusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607362bf2b324---96529111691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b2b7cf6c8c43fc149baabcc63e9d675/8642595298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf50f340724---86526608242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c921c935d---sutogepifimotoker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f41b964cc0---72910813258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etre-cheval.fr/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/etre%20cheval/news_pix/file/sojofisagebogovidoxuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/xomilatupatalukog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608405481ea3f---desobigog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b59c6b4f40a---4170909480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010368.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10368 4592 bytes
SHA-256: d6db99c13c89c05fe154e52cb447e1ff97ca7c79c1360813a24f565f2559ed45
font_01_sfnt_off00011321.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11321 11692 bytes
SHA-256: 2bd6c4025e995f7316e3b5b977cd784c632b844b19841b3fd52ef5bb646d65f0