Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8091822ff07931ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 19:05:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: a7f1016de70880a51f1141da94f00b3c SHA-1: 3b844439cbe87ba4aeaf6de2f58de11cd8780a7c SHA-256: 8091822ff07931baebdd806cc53e0d4ba9d1f2cab2f3e009645274d61a35fbe9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate the document is designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://ranch.pl/files/file/85442953986.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tavcam.com/upload/ckfinder/files/reguwobezizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cp9fhvm4coo2f70sdii1jid6r1/70844638317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50df09f591a9924b49a3198f922398cd/72801579537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/2445481035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3891d3eae826d4fcbfe6e3f0ef2a7c5b/7982436258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/rodufevomexavunujij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotravenzolo.it/userfiles/files/gukunezakipisano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe888403620---53232616244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reachcast.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d2974ce8fb859703daffec03e0270fc/jaxobiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jfodg80ejm3vb6atfg43an2ic2/sitaniloveziro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d111dc6def---biwujenibapubefulaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610558fedb1fe---39891971881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafemsoffice.com/userfiles/files/58320403291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rlmlaw.com/images/edit_images/file/85972303284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnalog.ru/images/file/13911845146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5539c7434---ximezibigoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taevlingar.se/images/pages/file/26004684405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d20daef36a---piragaros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korsorlampang.net/user_img/files/dexizonibizamos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbe31ba335c---46596758738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607665a7611d5---60755434984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chekeeh.ir/basefile/chekeehir/files/rukodulixamibiduva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5j8fcre2kc1nr0hbtg8541sol/67711949697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=terrenal+obra+de+teatro+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_off0000dd22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD22 19284 bytes
SHA-256: 98eceae0174bae023ea665ad2a9eee240063c97cc2b04dbbbdd871bf3aa97eae
font_01_sfnt_off00010ea0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EA0 10336 bytes
SHA-256: 2ae3f16c4fd3085801a8453c6c18b2ff020256cce3a48958e6742db6fb3cd041
font_02_sfnt_off000125cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125CC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1