Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8ff6aab3e33c244…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-06-23 10:59:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 432e37186ddfbec9fe60c371c48c42f8 SHA-1: d3042923dea8d2215c5f65259265ad5dd6e12f25 SHA-256: b8ff6aab3e33c244125ef8eb0e36b286a2f64f16b554695f0362a9348833511f
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites hosting further malicious PDF files. This indicates a phishing or malware distribution campaign leveraging compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64kie8j6a8uu19k3604hensogs/jusalagusuwetarulimukitab.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/xipowivigupirefugodisig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6nlin7thfa3igtjk9apoimu75/47893150178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dianacb.cz/userfiles/file/64913491966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cald-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7955c05242d0a7dc34d6e0acbb142ba/84726456364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b007745af29---ponebogamezuwelefagunibas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netinflux.net/userfiles/file/wonegosufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cbfec9132f---lawuvul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/74526386209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otelnamore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53035fcec901de68cd395219074f2bcd/tewep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084cb57b9f63---94692467518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/80575420502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd6502bab9a0c7718511325b6965b1f3/54142743709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=scansnap+s510+manualPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000f0b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0B4 5404 bytes
SHA-256: aca6237cd78694f31543580c67bff8ae8f12dd1cf858b2bdb173ab7778e433bd
font_01_sfnt_off0001030e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1030E 13856 bytes
SHA-256: 52a1bc13cb7ce95015281a8174d10e87226420462f0b7eed06b1fd8533588312
font_02_sfnt_off00012fdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FDC 16204 bytes
SHA-256: c988415812f594187b0a0ed75dc52802e798e1695b49bd300f8412a65040a449