Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8ba1d1aabdf65eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-09-14 02:28:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 7f9c7eba7514bbce45c779facff43f91 SHA-1: 5325f33c17f29991fd258a8fdf93da113b514a06 SHA-256: f8ba1d1aabdf65eb1e5a8b96e5004f997ce91a831b70c612df2a750e690592ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ipad+mini+for+sale+in+pakistan PDF link annotation
    • http://ck-tct.ru/userfiles/file/zanudipawagokenigasava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienmaythanglong.org/uploads/files/71994552591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://successstudio.net/userfiles/file/romenakagatapixilufogor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyosangjo.com/userfiles/file/20210904192600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161362e5bd2bc4---wuxejewasebebegox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gonouvellezelande.com/files/22561945221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dukeofmarshall.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18050174560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naucharts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42083249888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pm-ural.com/uploads/files/buginaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7388f9dc6f19f4a54eec8c122321e2b/mobibubilebetoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anoh.net/pds/userfiles/files/89110118259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://app0.linkeo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87891487377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161395958e8af0---mebegamuwova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichibus.vn/uploads/news_file/36737085901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssteelelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/73930769882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagodkaprzedszkole.pl/userfiles/file/25319154740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aa-nusd.jp/wulutagajobajim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tacchigroup.com/public/thread/risorse/file/98792782384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattress-leader.com/media/47137725180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cabini.it/userfiles/files/5416114848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haysalon.com/public_html/userfiles/file/kafumaxukotawixosutijale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/kegikutilorudewabozarenuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automyjka.pl/automyjka.pl/userfiles/file/vopunexabuxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teraval.cz/res/file/62083610644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onecre.com/images/content/files/zuwokiwob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiddencliff.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210909_797251FA54C9C17F.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_off0000f365.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF365 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B7C 10700 bytes
SHA-256: ee98f04f73ceed484c257475f2fa5d31fc2c537964a7221dedef4759462f9053
font_02_sfnt_off000123f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123F2 18636 bytes
SHA-256: ac8b8a19e33258ac3db3ad1fc79fafb7f1f88dec1ea9184620743420b03e884b

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