Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8b7e54728a5f4a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 12:48:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: dbd6e5e2c5b1be0a0811b10689983063 SHA-1: e00f89c4c98a94acc6170189de52a6fc5eb0c59e SHA-256: f8b7e54728a5f4a93fc92e1a42f0b4460bafffb84890207af95c8d5549927064
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports this, aiming to trick users into downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://1-cities.com/blog_images/blog_/file/98827313388.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cheeselicious.net/UserFiles/file/96178882400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c05ad24b93a---dexazovuwenitudel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a19c7019d9---faxusukepekafoxafas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f73245383bc---68757809404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuitsdartistes.eu/images/file/gerapurunasoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghhs1968.com/clients/5/57/5762190d0a265df614d1f295a7060a42/File/96311909736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210807_110525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70f483dbb3f6c5e1adb98d85871c2d3f/60406364860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1f6ad1e77a---nibijixamitanotebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivaldiskibus.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210821_4678CE8428209EDD.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ua1e3vk8veplneqaks102dmshu/24630900542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://musikkursus.dk/userfiles/file/77005113369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.info/files/files/pujemesuresugekutiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160714ca576821---visifodowapotuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160786e6c70a18---75705458811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/wifijobewazev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/xogara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c41b0e35064---dekupupunemidubapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ecfaf507af9---rezaberiguzupujagigoxofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-6/20210606010249185707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e9eea55f3b99db8ffb76247381fa0e8/83808735464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawfirm.vn/MINH/user_files/file/67728599691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3c3ab35d71---79687709893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=transformer+pdf+en+excel+logicielPDF 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_off0000c7bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfcd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFCD 17368 bytes
SHA-256: 0b393184d32a8c3bea9444c92cec06558e8f7b35f7f27007ee991533267846b8
font_02_sfnt_off00010c73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C73 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 1ba9692a3dc4d794a2bba5b16bac53176c0018b399ad815afcd2ceb546ff8fb0