Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8faa584ba15b17c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-06-08 19:24:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ed508e286da2be9128d7ab837d67931c SHA-1: 2b4c9af90aa8eb01d8cd3e72c489480a167ba8c1 SHA-256: f8faa584ba15b17c162130399df0037f51a722c3fcaf23e95958673d6b3cde5e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to downloading MP3 songs, which is a common tactic for distributing malware or conducting phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dheere+dheere+se+meri+zindagi+mp3+song PDF link annotation
    • https://carea2plus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7879a4f2b76bfcef237e704720ccad95/lutimemilegaxakixipav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb80341924a---voratosalapiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11jfrgr25u2nkgm1dbro7fbmfm/relusuwafagoderovaxitusuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ouh5nnve2tm6d435gq35dhjf75/kujeruladisex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9bcc1f6589c26c370aa68c3373a65a0/wopinuxenikegakidevel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fk2ku4di4o8prvembk3dnebar4/39803418189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrans911.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/vexunovumefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddd614a69367dcbb6e98095652db69f0/najelesagijime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kistours.hu/userfiles/file/31946591998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ff17129de3fd6176ef8befb4aef6e77/xuramazowelawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/36571846949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evpltravel.com/xv_image/file/88376808338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082dfc34dbb8---xajoruzinezirawojomulutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68551d054abaf9a814269639daae9011/gulitotabozewajikuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f4ade96a82ccd89716ffec48d0133a7/41021047103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bleikss.com/userfiles/file/rolakusejonudameturupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074acc661d01---befimotedisovenog.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
    • 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_off0000dedc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEDC 5556 bytes
SHA-256: 007f488bbef84e8804cd1ade612d611ec107b1a882e84580bd635344b3bab2a0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1A4 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 6a3492a752e085a4e531462e1258bc81d08c69a2e7d172cb02bf75541a0efdb1
font_02_sfnt_off0001172d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1172D 16076 bytes
SHA-256: fce21d86c2b5faa43a5619d6c859002d414ef8720c10ef6ba746f045f1b0bfa7