Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8152b8a85b80c6c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-09-12 09:24:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: eb731ffcc88d10c529332ff000e7f97d SHA-1: d20fb5d55c63b3ba7c17303e1c5cd99bd61633f3 SHA-256: 8152b8a85b80c6c5d897dadf937c29a160c4e3c0a0c6f114f3833a826665073d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://apra.pl/files/file/vodafimu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://harmonie-avion.fr/actualite/files/vexijajalarewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d1b15865bb---wogoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://molenat-energies.fr/molenat.com/images/editor/file/13560742680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yongqingtech.com/d/files/xufuferumeganu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kahasat.cz/data/file/vowuzumavemulurosodago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d01f4699c5---8986594679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranaghatpchsschool.org/userfiles/file/disobimepelefek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2e6f9725b7380c7f340d7859e770484/73397952362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8eb75b81aa75b6df530ea59d4d751d72/kefikigurafizikan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kahounova.cz/userfiles/file/97297933931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bnovum.hu/downloads/78227908584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613819e2830cc---bolisorobilexokinaresot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://igruppe.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54327291433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nitm.ac.in/nitmeghalaya/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dufeluxemadigogefenunaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coutleelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/36031541435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/xuweguwaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://levant-tekstil.com/other_files/File/71362038441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acupunctuuryao.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34950767104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swagath.co/new/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87133282817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/logumokitefux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sro52.ru/uploads/files/paziberabopuwebonatokus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfbma.org/files/fck/file/22707647360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitbrasil.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/beliwovubimajakas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=algebra+1+honors+final+exam+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_off0000e80d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE80D 11124 bytes
SHA-256: a99edb7ac4c27e6cdaf10601651b38f67eca9b270a4e34a047de40cd76a2b39a
font_01_sfnt_off0001016a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1016A 21168 bytes
SHA-256: e077daddbb4d94f1514d44a328d8781897249f7e48f5b380491d79014228b0aa
font_02_sfnt_off000137f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137F9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1