Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a8b9213601871de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 15:45:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 7c01e17a2a0f52a2b7ee44c64bd2b6b7 SHA-1: d8c76a7d5ab148e436af3e3d179e099fc8df0b49 SHA-256: 1a8b9213601871de50a71a9cc8500cd0dc29456ecd9e8f001d44280e0a37552c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload sites and other disposable hosting domains. The document's structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to exploit user trust by presenting seemingly legitimate links that lead to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/54997817583.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609271df94845---46182793333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/430bed21980074258f8267ca124b702c/wunefuputufogeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e5485228bbdfaf16cb0a3ef3d69ba7a/53960569965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a70d0c09fc6d88db3eecf703f218fe8a/22379365100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oishisushigd.com/uploads/files/64742183764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19178329770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luluscafeonline.com/uploads/files/nugajozidoxeserug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609836fa59cac---31381693627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/bogobegekowewufobil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kotolantopeni.cz/files/bululoraribixide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/tavudezekemukubudege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verner.lt/images/files/fipusasodibefolaxikutip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ristoranteibucanieri.it/userfiles/files/76735389576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/24237908875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/zutajalifukojibasatutaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.pl/upload/wutajijodupatofabusof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amon-syotengai.com/userfiles/file/51630681964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d31d5cff46---42123126057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16112973b052e3---92961609044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8f8c3a7811a26f8971862fe657141c4/rizikesumajimokadixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090e73ed3d78---sumini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexus-study-abroad-travel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/1286578431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ros-audit.com/i/up/file/maburulinuwutur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=present+simple+present+continuous+beginners+pdfPDF 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_off0000eca4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECA4 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 488ebc3596cbd097ee00e6e69b22a687aaf622c2d57a8b04627655dfce45f1b7
font_01_sfnt_off000105e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105E0 18148 bytes
SHA-256: d165971eb9e92ac7310f292ab91bbd5a48489b50c93dbf6d6f17f09dbc404331
font_02_sfnt_off000134b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1