Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8230ef8b81ba1022…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 21:54:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: faade0e791179cbf94454497c17e3242 SHA-1: ab3be3c4e86f8c492c987a06b470d0778de020eb SHA-256: 8230ef8b81ba102209eef95df5ee29ccec677bdaefd6b7d5a8fd1ab7f96b7d6d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, flagging it as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely to distribute further malicious content. The PDF document body was heavily obfuscated and unreadable.

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://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e0a26c147---tetas.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gillsandgeckos.com/userfiles/file/71382479880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5c8eb69d1f---24407525738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namjapizza.com/app/webroot/files/6702445224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guapa2.com/admin/fck/file/5765099162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleanenergy.mn/uploads/files/19592271102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wsbe17hongkong.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18163421744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turar-mussin.com/userfiles/File/58927817092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edu-mate.kr/_UploadFile/Images/file/13742548987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vcvscr.cz/www/www/fckphotos/file/rolewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citywideok.com/clients/75789/File/68314549496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2e7ebfe2b0d977d9705cc9dc86bb434/funaleperoluzemimazit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9de55a110510c035e92a129f439170e4/9505486489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e87cc8e2b90---wurimabazevejasutetis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/28438195735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a805d5185d---93840645014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79tlhbe58er9vm866fke8pjgli/jetewizikuladudepafafiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ccengis.be/applications/ckeditor/addons/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76573404663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f51917f404b---doxizeseke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotec-industrie.be/userfiles/file/voxumorosupikuxanevonujaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.perchegouet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fotafozowuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccqld1pqekv0acvmdtdsv8dcf7/kokojulubugidux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vscqjsnour0a01v4dl5rei61d8/duxomixejexaxigikur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2272fac764---75552658357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=elementary+particles+chart+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_off0000e2b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2B8 16516 bytes
SHA-256: dfca58631d89a37aa420c43f39227bd7edc939ae71ce55a7d048e42b03bee3d7
font_01_sfnt_off00010d29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D29 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012540.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12540 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 3c48d71d1db8050d903b543c61f5b6d143bcc47bb82611715677f15b0f5e73cf