Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8b0b6f2c69b6c76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-07-22 07:47:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8f1f02a0c4d124e8394eb5097e0aaa61 SHA-1: 044beabce630f178dd6e2dae7ed030ca8c3dc600 SHA-256: d8b0b6f2c69b6c766e87239b96f069dc2a025d402940c982b47e240ee5437c4d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites. The document's structure and embedded links suggest it is designed to exploit user trust and direct them to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://tamlaproject.com/userData/board/file/kapunozetupisidegaxolog.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/xivezawozefin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a132ed92233---72645310676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dianacb.cz/userfiles/file/52428290000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mt-filtration.com/uploaded/file/148175935760d3d4f41087e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7a86bb58c7---49043399675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2962cd2d65d33b3b5089cb6bb511acd6/59717897527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almondzwealth.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/86688817034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/rapivavuredis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2a7f79f82b---97801962180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-harmonics.com/upload/files/81590934303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12ee6ec18e8f18ac2ee50bce3c88ed1a/32459003954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec880f02910b4b7796f9b8fde12d2a83/58372885693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altus.pl/userfiles/file/tagubomakibamaroxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07fe2eee783d9f698d3e76f78f7514e0/xivamimazikufag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdc.ir/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vapibidanajuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b12319f940---49169938014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/am8vdqvmq7od5mulg12atq88mk/25357956979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608845022f761---subuligular.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/dudabejoxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/zegudimipinamuwumonexet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca3215024c---77508969039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=viruses+crossword+puzzle+answersPDF 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_off0000f841.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF841 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 56d4f821c9b477220954258ce15930b8fca7be9aa3f019ac4ae1e9440d7ddfb4
font_01_sfnt_off000110bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000128d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128D1 17188 bytes
SHA-256: 7c7ece1022fbdc11231f7e5b04d17ef477fb5df5658509f1cb0cfeac44916475