Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8747cb75ddfcf71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.2 KB Created: 2021-07-21 03:29:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6ee8288a25cb6bcc75c23c379b811bf4 SHA-1: 5eb37d2d586c300d2858ddb32f16c5617b679f83 SHA-256: f8747cb75ddfcf71dc6be72db78784eeda546588d82887ac7b66e1ec7c26ed8d
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or appear to be part of a link farm, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The ML classifier and advance-fee scam heuristic strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to trick users into downloading further malicious content or divulging sensitive information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9926

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Advance-fee lottery/parcel scam lure high SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE
    Document contains lottery/beneficiary or prize language together with large-value draft/funds wording and parcel/courier delivery requirements. This is a classic advance-fee fraud document shape.
  • 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://bannhuaduong.net/upload/files/poviwejuwowepefepuboxatu.pdf
    • http://unioncentralreunion.com/clients/3/3a/3acd25563584ef55397927d4124196c4/File/41852800332.pdf
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d30d40c95f083086abc0e9861f5ec70e/68141712314.pdf
    • http://feldbach-tourismus.at/files/mitigowizamujotarofowavan.pdf
    • https://bistakalikotenetwork.com/userfiles/file/papokisi.pdf
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaa36489d33---fozebarokimuparija.pdf
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a431158418612a0aebc4c2224105e48c/30508617982.pdf
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be7496bd389---64696963265.pdf
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608556335b5b6---38334669935.pdf
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810a52f0b0c---sogixudaweduvewuledup.pdf
    • http://sochi-polyana.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wafatupojugogajav.pdf
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dd2f51cf75---dixazapurare.pdf
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a8093a55f---51933598718.pdf
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j9o347ol6ronmmnb2tl703lof5/jibotanulabebeja.pdf
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///39458066507.pdf
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cdb784081f---viwowol.pdf
    • https://markmont.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/71675528741.pdf
    • http://steelbo.com/uploads/admins/u0/files/20210616060919.pdf
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/zoborivobenanabixojemamaz.pdf
    • http://alliance-ic.ru/uploads/file/50500611962.pdf
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/54471959275.pdf
    • http://xingyeknitting.com/userfiles/files/62350673746.pdf
    • https://cubic.is/userfiles/file/35436216422.pdf
    • https://fa-vietnam.com/webroot/img/files/jimorinitod.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=whole+note+music+symbol
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00013058.bin
cb0f1976836f7f3a327121c9e1bea60c892d9ee3d2235ef37f2bee09f9faac2f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13058 18948 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00016255.bin
975796ef4c040945a81ae301883a616d7fe356de15aa2e14676e898bf877d4ad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16255 10580 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00017a5c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17A5C 16792 bytes