Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8326fc84d02fd944…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-07-31 09:50:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c062cbffa7381a69e10ae8283537a8f2 SHA-1: ba38737fc0b045b1d6bb2fe09f3bce6839aa70a2 SHA-256: 8326fc84d02fd94410fc0adb48d98f9f3b7ffa9780c8e55451ce2a5dac83810b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting sites. The primary goal appears to be redirecting users to external content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://thetsaban3watnuea.com/UserFiles/file/xasofulekovaganilemafaz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0aeieu49evdmb7su3ehptu4jf4/tokilatumabuxapoxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2f47814ded---71953149461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc1d1ae98ae---xibixilebupej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da71ce61580---43805682533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/norafebigefigezopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didopack.com/files/70089016373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd8a6e47d1b821d49a7e0f012c6c7f30/pasev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lusagroup.mobi/images/website/user/files/54911787528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenna-ski.pl/userfiles/file/894085503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aardbeienfeesten.nl/uploadimages/files/27933390012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3a27b4d237---sijawidejaver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stphilomenaonline.org/userfiles/file/komevodixupafulisamikexet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4912e40490---rofepawufefatewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5af96aca154c764cbdd010cc249b7f33/21899571182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connatlas.com/home/conn/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kitopotigorimafat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strechybenesov.cz/content/70618146926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/51833783181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnianemarzenie.pl/userfiles/file/99895697147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eea494a33f---dazuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f175eb7117---fabadotil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=tesoro+escondido+en+cripta+antigua+weatherPDF 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_off0000c5ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5AE 16084 bytes
SHA-256: 7cc69ee9d91b8e85ad5cb26aa3031380e299893fb256c140698f4c68b24eb70d
font_01_sfnt_off0000eeac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEAC 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 84db9fa9a273cbade66af1013ff21752fa34488ebc3825c7498662ddbecf5773
font_02_sfnt_off000107ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1