Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8d0b70ed0ca34af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2021-09-24 20:02:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7a3af65dc62cbc513c1206b39111ab59 SHA-1: 53b25befd4176e197dfda1f27b52d362a9cc1c51 SHA-256: d8d0b70ed0ca34afbfd28f1608abd6bb100bf2670dddd85fe94840d976178f96
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms pointing to potentially compromised websites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a spearphishing attachment designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=package+disabler+pro+code PDF link annotation
    • http://torremaggiore.sitmap.it/files/files/24669556432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agisma.ru/files/pages/files/49681940003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131622b778e7---golefewimanikepim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hrmconsulting.biz/upload/files/67425489994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v2rg9vfo3uge7l33uv9hfhogr0/9430356603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fvv-hohenfelde.de/sites/default/files/files/44913309659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bohemiamaestro.com/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65832867150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syekp.gr/sites/default/files/file/93595862655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbhattacharjee.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45310059292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backupcenters.com/userfiles/file/xawelifubiwalemet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ofertaromania.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17897393058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karolinanowak.com/userfiles/file/netirazokinuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadapremiumlubes.com/survey/userfiles/files/98480920266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12e4108c9f88f5784c8118dd45365f58/wuxewafiseviresowepanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halkapsikoloji.net/userfiles/file/pikeweverafesetasud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vecsecity.info/editor_up/40582434238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caythuocnam.org/images/files/kenolopebudinonaxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synthecinter.com/userfiles/files/25221180427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12shio3.com/contents/files/lomujitoxelal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loyallcanada.com/editor_files/file/sivewivinam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangdientunhk.com/upload/files/32874375283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armenia4d.com/contents/files/89962513362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://healhumanity.foundation/userfiles/file/40057584336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b618.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB618 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE2A 17420 bytes
SHA-256: 1b08829f01098b364e8c346241327de70e5ea4ac002a7e73502a57004ad5f22f
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB19 10720 bytes
SHA-256: bc93011acf8641b1ce4773650757ef1f05100e47d68c1c2691d9af8e6585ad88