Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e808281bb28fd830…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-08-12 04:03:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 3c2ecbf22d5314f7a00fec8e0123bb51 SHA-1: 201cdb93ffcfa2cec127a660f427f37a1a961d1b SHA-256: e808281bb28fd830e2ffee93be6b6e95523247ca525ea63403c37d6cb1bcfbab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of embedded URLs and the link farm heuristic strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9875

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://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c48ad1c1f27d8999072ff4a20fa74ab/jibuvakabebapakavavevinet.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://generaltubi.com/container/ckfiles/files/nebavebov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48dcfa0611b2fdc68e86b1ec908c08a9/tomipifokasosijobofot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casavacanzesanvito.eu/userfiles/files/5273291925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/coq9dvmm2n6l0cba1c6mf628oc/55916144366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigapilar.com/upload/files/27281548789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab8cb3e2bcbb80871ec72f1b06ce5443/jatutapedisowup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbm-mova.by/images_from_html_editor/file/rojemuvag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heatexchangersolution.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-31/20210731095636176107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0db01a33e56dead8d3cb33c48747f15d/90510548629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winkeleninzundert.nl/uploadimages/files/penotubap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e025d9c3fefe18211c2c028cb70fa82/daxukulogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://195exim.com/datas/files/nibazafotikizigukem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8260aec45---lemomegiremutevubexujibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamokugrofa.sk/admin/fckeditor/file/wolusavutepewigon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bronia.org/userfiles/file/jeruwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb2ae6ae7ec---bowumedovuxovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68cm75qvejbmc8102m71dp0chv/rugagojazefowozexuweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matsonconstruction.net/userfiles/file/gerolel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campcolefamilyreunion.com/clients/82065/File/56261541546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/631bfc5f9ca5237491b24c5b4db3b67d/suzulewuvezuzizob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ael27ksg47t2s9l5c5qupcrqlp/38560811164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43529162c6---nalegamuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61ad2e0a88baf5768a8262ead2e2272c/47640540729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oglethorpeclub.org/~oglethor/UserFiles/file/rulem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abade69a156---78487706463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070432c0cfbb---fasasepub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=what+to+eat+to+gain+weight+fast+for+skinny+guysPDF 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_off0000fa38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA38 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001124f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1124F 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 4c77d7e725c28093243759b062402ae3993d2b93cb1b5bb4f71b9f561c01c4c5
font_02_sfnt_off00012b64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B64 16824 bytes
SHA-256: 19f69dba48ae4c8fdc54372beca1a368866f19a98a5d299cca11c9a17dbef946