Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8145919c2c2aabf6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 04:13:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 243c41f49efe677fc01571d358db5b3c SHA-1: 129ebf66a60fed6ad37e9366fcfe3ec218bf17f8 SHA-256: 8145919c2c2aabf67b6cee97ef01637ea5b2c2fdebd14f4f7e25b465dda66e9f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute phishing content or malware. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://rodolphe-blanchet.fr/Rodolphe/fckeditor/file/lasuwurunerapan.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l8mvacr6ltjevaahub0hq8pb20/4334905129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cca8b6d398d---71451507166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leadershipcareer.kr/fckeditor/_upload/file/kotukuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/salotusumamuwijorex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braghieriarchitettura.com/userfiles/files/24953706367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dietaltop.com/userfiles/files/bolizitofijurox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d742a8c80d---giguwebakilegiwov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ldoris.com/upfile/files/20210901022233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1d8bbf3a060262a58df0198e4ca3c8c/18528023602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotoprint.lv/downloads/file/63443623420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dd1db387a3748d57b844efc776005f6/guwonozurukerota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bburago.info/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/85283263227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falconartistmanagement.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wevevelowijav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160daecd34224a---18551642690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7gtar2au33nvjpt1s0j0s94ar7/pemirunobobuvufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuqiaohome.com/uploads/files/202108212342311423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b7b1090a90b617b535174b9557f2852/zebenux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murasakijr.com/uploads/files/rokijezepipufomoboza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607745af39bf9---perijizozanuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hchs1972.com/clients/2/2c/2cb73362227bcfbd3ed6ae01b5b3dc46/File/47394831061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210507063138_39310129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f22c243c7b58b9d9831824efaff245f0/19511770588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=things+that+rhyme+with+zachPDF 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_off0000e006.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE006 10732 bytes
SHA-256: d639265ee58c4fc8fcc1671eceeb6399e4c84a3f96f390eaec32dd0b6291bd10
font_01_sfnt_off0000f89e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF89E 19488 bytes
SHA-256: abfd51e4e05b00752ea4e62306fb9497b9de573d541000b13f24b9a6d0241078
font_02_sfnt_off00012b9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B9E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1