Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8ffd813e7df7dee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-06-09 18:57:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 21b0292ece1edb3afc5118d61cfcb680 SHA-1: ff46056a20f2b94c48be714f8343d54477095922 SHA-256: d8ffd813e7df7dee627ca11e50d35d24febeaefe232bd3781c25d27c1f506f4a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to a 'Yeti sb150 setup guide'. No scripts were extracted, but the extensive use of external links points to an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=yeti+sb150+setup+guide PDF link annotation
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tut1kilu3nf99h2ndj9ib7rslj/vilamivozevesorox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/pokikonerap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac293048956---penowogoxulugikujagulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aokman-drive.com/d/files/29273319031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lemanssrl.it/file/34528737045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41a4dd4f4da4eae80754c27546e9d03e/rutejijimamax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2b82c3bfe---sigimidawamunasariba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dsshi9eo4pproi1o35teab6inu/10077005165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jl58nn9ttsfjk9lu0b9ecm9qjc/73293285300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5l56p2jj6hf5npro9a39rj6er5/minesewexuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083daf88de53---69742030991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d4c96e0c1b---vuxunumepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa4c1882ad6---5657595157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6a2f68a4fd---25021453048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s9l693h60rsjfvg9nfapvlg0vr/dapumegafijisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/16680004214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f418.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF418 5208 bytes
SHA-256: fde17a0bdb7e6a1b8eeb7b7348113cd01ef71a3b3e0cf36ab46ab398b4ac80ed
font_01_sfnt_off000105ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105EC 11604 bytes
SHA-256: e46d2ffdec58c860634e3b666b2ea7cf8f18f9e5e5da87ad21aa0d1449bd76a7