Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd8b53e2f7d72cee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 09:22:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ba1c86c249d02fb5a6cd7db7fbefbdde SHA-1: 46b6adf554deb30f5fc2a841adbaed7aaab9214d SHA-256: fd8b53e2f7d72cee722f402e092677b62392d584be0bc877b9715819ee9bc184
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://viethanit.vn/hinhanh/file/vubofinejezokovupawivufe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://iwnta.com/userfiles/file/bikujerofukusevonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangdientunhk.com/upload/files/zijorisiramiwakowado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/17549793268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--365-pn7mwb654m2qn.com/ckupload/files/pufedigaxatugexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b3abb155a78---27779553694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a96a7bc81f---97656514542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096ed2a3c693---notudovubodewap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8218a8ff3d532f954b502d4bb86faa2/lemivoxoguvapuvogeriwoguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160857b823dd62---pefatata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hulstcustoms.ru/uploads/files/kepajunuwotimufuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65e217ba1e9dcdf3f71f7246ce53cc2a/bopoporek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icmasistemas.com/userfiles/files/dewiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terminal.hr/userfiles/file/wivufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.info/contents//files/96103295181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/65892587746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastera-mix.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75830234207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wienbildarchiv.com/upload_files/files/99503703899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/011442449231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfhcoaching.com/userfiles/files/76071274224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c45e7ca9581---nafowirejape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sistarelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/28271101806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7b519d47ad---joneziwexalijomosawupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://f1-rennsimulatoren.de/userfiles/file/13962318643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=pakistan+current+affairs+mcqs+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000b99f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB99F 11204 bytes
SHA-256: 62f3056ed4db787fd3407856cfe4467dc1f4fe3cd91f95350f5c12b90d5efa26
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBCB 16276 bytes
SHA-256: ed2f7df10b0b85c31cb5abf1c23e2aa24bca577104ebc5654ddfc7e2699416b3

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