Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8175a95c1ae1d2c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 09:13:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: afeac8f9d4c1a18c12c3cd1d9b71e1a6 SHA-1: e7b7f435566ca4b37e8665d721a91470888c6621 SHA-256: 8175a95c1ae1d2c0ffee058daf540befaaa5368b4f181774565687007c78c82a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of PDF link farm heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://icon-studios.com/userfiles/file/xizotejiroge.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://knowleangling.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/boguxifatuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coming-c.com/userfiles/file/65291221038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubestsports.com/imager/files/20210822110304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c6e292d4dc---60054134372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/41984120505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbstav.cz/file/rixokabox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windsbs.biz/files/file/76454523644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d048a19db5b6c6b2a98baa73a503de5c/xabowipumewisemure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/pokodavepixigevijuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leavereview.com/customerinterview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10842100009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhfarm.com/images/uploads/files/dimonomovegezovadedir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s6nff5rfvt5vjtmud8qlh8blar/fonegizetumaxapebebuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2157168620694639955800ebe92738ee/xawefefesatemejekaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3237f69451d77e345b5191b35e0facd/takuputu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085da3f3973c---wukej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aprendanow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d4054aea7d5162580eac5204ba4de30/tulomot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rasmesafar.net/basefile/basefiles/85964529547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098bda5c660d---gabitenonoveri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duonglaohanoi.com/userfiles/file/10292411683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095625761ef0---seligirabel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/99990391344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74a87fb16e3acc2461d780471409c821/77280514671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=premiere+pro+cs5+tutorial+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_off0000d417.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD417 10912 bytes
SHA-256: ab56ccc701e9a73f1e770dcfde403dca4a942cd4d1cb87eb83d66179aa95bbde
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED65 18924 bytes
SHA-256: cf4bb9cd6d6916e7dba78e4062aa01a6bd82b78cbc7bd5ea4f71daf9f0128de2
font_02_sfnt_off00011de0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DE0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1