Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8fd36cd7e582fe4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 03:21:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8b6d652492234d5b1a975d2b635c7647 SHA-1: 382bb61d94f917445f393453ddf35d3814a561a8 SHA-256: b8fd36cd7e582fe4928526f35a54f2cca53a4cad89e737eb90237ac3f2d99f0c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further payloads. The presence of external URIs and a link farm structure points towards a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e0ca54b9ebeab42b96deff624672579/51947637481.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bdc2a1821d---6799454560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5udua.com/contents/files/60624362111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087694bb93e3---65862547236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlnsk.ru/uploads/file/fufugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/lusilebef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a11edfe5e04---29547155121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3567002fd37fb19ac57f6644755e5fb7/fejofotidet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inwallendorf.de/userfiles/file/85265490331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reflectionuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cunk2n67pcdb87dcn2dmrdk18/koxixif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wolfroccatiassociati.it/userfiles/files/jatatowex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shukokai-voves.fr/userfiles/file/lolupipaxamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fh3cm1bn9irku7jg3fpfjcvf16/zimesojevezegad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05b8f5ffde3f718af6d9a7ed1fd75948/81576388712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santchavarabed.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17287817074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kund-in.com/userfiles/file/88606990142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rf66fo6921uugk6sgdfkp5vd97/degelubefafupabufedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaatlantida.com/userfiles/file///9641614393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spoanalyze.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac57cfa763c9d8f6220f7c762b9f8a9f/liwakujutaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://streetnn.ru/data/upload/ck/files/6412509748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cada8cf740aa5c228bde4505e036ecb0/fepuborifubanilezelumarev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/23897782787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markyatirim.com/resimler/files/31476717072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=gymnastic+bodies+handstand+one+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_off00012370.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12370 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 541b9a61651011ae9a8f9a08ea963ef1cd03d79c7bbaf9c00bb5a42f632f87ee
font_01_sfnt_off00013cc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CC4 18056 bytes
SHA-256: 81030a4b49b8dc2e349dc86726ec7edb2b0fd25822e3a5bf2341419d2789e074
font_02_sfnt_off00016b56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16B56 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1