Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8fa731a941ab5e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 20:11:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 36dbf8d3befd16bfad5ec97b37d9a3f3 SHA-1: eb7d00f083dc7b683b10c16c2b902681653dcd79 SHA-256: b8fa731a941ab5e7e83c4193effa64dafa4f5330ac0acb04d20ca0bff1aeede7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites. This pattern suggests the document is designed to lure users into clicking links that likely lead to phishing pages or malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://cerezolorente.com/files/cerezolorente/_repo/file/nesavudidagabon.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db1bffed7d91d8290ebe29001dbbe714/97433576839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b4228faace96218e7a2397446b8428e/dubet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f212bc74dbb72f01cd78618811aaa8c/safifemotibupigasotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fa3d4dd82b---9706289454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/lizexukeviwiforawiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b9ddf57491---vitonafobalirabop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/392620c2ab4f2c0287d290cf295cfdf3/76265867425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f4dca65eeb---79517264624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/zaronalinaxebabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexa.cz/docs/file/78547231821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zwickerfoto.hu/_user/file/fedinesavirefojunekabalud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7e28da1368a6d59b9500d661bfc4150/seliluji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ochronaskory.pl/pliki_user/File/14406568943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b1df10085---11173273223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maihome.hu/admin1/file/zoreralex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isdoor.ru/uploads/files/linafosozepawovadexoredi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jaegeraviation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66043724474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fraqtkgsmkn4uqnmk1hi90ld9/56953274139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-isc.com/userfiles/file/wapibepexozupolamopadamaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d31a4627c---97507620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab102b191c295091ddd13937330373e4/90616826082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leosservices.com/userfiles/file/mejugeluvimofozagemabedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vmkmsz.hu/userfiles/file/vitenigomidol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=the+terror+the+ladderPDF 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_off0000d9f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9F4 17048 bytes
SHA-256: ef75abeb743ce1d537db6d75c93cbdf95129f3680ee72355e2aa39e46d94144c
font_01_sfnt_off000105f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E0B 9944 bytes
SHA-256: 0895584fc242268109f79f6a7cffd068799cbc7f072176e9eb038f5ccb2a4f54