Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8406291630bf24a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 10:10:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ad2be5ed2a8849aa0c701b1cfdde6e84 SHA-1: 01174a7b65440401494839806694623597e6e50f SHA-256: 8406291630bf24a99c24365679d93f1ecf93827f2c610f883443c9eaab49f59e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external URLs for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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 https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=business+card+format+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://esperanzadeavila.com/fotos/file/tiwumatufubekitirogilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stsaischoolamritsar.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/85270440083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eee7bca438---5345638652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a726bdd1b2---kosesutasuzamenekirof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lire-les-notes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28203847150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gazelletr.com/userfiles/files/puvefijatagolufowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c81d0e5ab5---kipozokirotivonekamep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atasuorganiktarim.com/upload/ckfinder/files/44696745040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/85140170403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domesticsolutionsagency.com/userfiles/file/goxudonet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a519e46a44---8752712115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyosushilohaus.com/uploads/files/6863364560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n3olmg4pejrsgg53dvc9sqpvij/83763225423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphysiology.ru/upload/38481880060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhansq.cn/upload/file/57928561016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/sofadoxuvab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m9usqicjtc4rcgj64j9690aq67/69828674083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0163696f359cdb0085591a594e7af406/zogumolalojosulukofujavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q263qadd9pk1egfibpvjav1tb1/96090054407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cba2ea9afa---gakodizisugiwuwalulukujaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pnp-studio.com/fckeditorfiles/file/netefewifajeraxuvugose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1qhrroqijg5vj0qffea4vpe93g/gomizolebopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arch-teh.com/pic/userfile/66848831493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mls.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef0f0661292f4234e7874e385bfa77d8/6433378606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cca38cf9fdff146c3948ce69b00ee399/todadoxovime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/477c46ad7a382a5e2d6e84fe5a762aed/lipefuzupobogijaxife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b1419f2e18---pemokekajabaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e03b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE03B 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 84c02b1d6fe1acdc0bc9c41e38f77d573106d1098b4ee109f465323ddb916397
font_01_sfnt_off0000f96f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF96F 17408 bytes
SHA-256: 852362ebb2300d6e360779315b0bb5b111bc7982b36e749e869279c38de87ce2
font_02_sfnt_off000126ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1