Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8fa1aa5dd93847a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-22 11:49:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 7267688995429fcd022d0c14febb1f47 SHA-1: bb6d96ce1a7abdc988a701ed675caab925b6246b SHA-256: b8fa1aa5dd93847ab91e77f53a19556463d3ee8f0035bd39752bf0d5c7af68fc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for SEO spam or phishing. The presence of multiple link farms on potentially compromised CMS uploads suggests a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fb36e088bc072097ccab0ebc449b7c1/67665978865.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://icnj.net/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jakogipivugewomezaxugebam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truckersplantparts.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mideroxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebankcardservice.com/uploads/files/16966735309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bordahusfeldolgozo.hu/editor_up/lerubugirisepufusopozigap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161312171aa96d---vozogarotewazamumobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toppelletmachine.com/d/files/16356773756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roarmysecurity.ro/mm/file/65136464469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theartofdesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51922865851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9y.bfage.com/upload/files/20210904115102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rised.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cartolmania.it/file/70310983836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seikai.jp/free_images/files/jufesuwovefunuxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fcksa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88899579079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szallas-karpatalja.hu/upload/deneziganozigebitiniride.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614439d21447b---48517000967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cattaneoarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/dunutoxezusawirigunojib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quesnelbusinessnetwork.ca/userfiles/file/lanenevavanopolen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://master-vin.ru/files/file/74365351402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgardening.nl/images/file/vojowawewitis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalfinepashmina.com/userfiles/file/beritivorugobafufop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gnatowski.pl/attachments/file/20114418343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestocktool.com/d/files/pasapiwititi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevenseahotel.com/uploads/images/files/14365874979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613abc1a20adc---ligaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=mr+penumbra%27s+24+hour+bookstore+pdfPDF 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_off0000ec29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC29 11180 bytes
SHA-256: 32a76975ec3bdc38259142d009a8da3b3ad955f091d24a08c8b5814c8ee8cf6b
font_01_sfnt_off0001060a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1060A 18092 bytes
SHA-256: 1eb0e672a21dbf3e3a11f783525f65523abf19bb3d60f5c0064c0a62c22c0428
font_02_sfnt_off00013444.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13444 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1