Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8406daba160b06f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.2 KB Created: 2021-07-02 02:41:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 71563d156a11a4406e80bc2ebba6692d SHA-1: ac2697c65e340bd4a0730fcaf9c50852fb5d1de5 SHA-256: 8406daba160b06f5e5b93388dd5ce3a10bb2db27acbc4b007beb8df44f8d1d27
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and a high ML score. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely phishing or malware delivery scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9918

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://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160927dff7edf5---55154834148.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084dfaceaee3---fevoninosazisufudokuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/479b191e1b80e0183ec59fa31bab9d43/25886174936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160715b79dfc88---70997815608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/932dc18bc08e14aea5a8afe5c180ca71/4266053170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stromzeleny.cz/file/tugapesojonumotex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fcf33d589f---94281375287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b87bd77ae0cea1e62491b880cdb147e/noduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/92598315274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jirehenl.com/userfiles/file/221924473632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laughteronlineuniversity.com/images/upload/files/70733127923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aite-materials.com/upfiles/file/kosun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db10fh54drabrruieh1sv9nrbp/23139384316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.it/uploads/file/99820426166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bes4n9lm0grkt8hponiabmd284/77255439804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ty-universe.com/image/files/20210622_203844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/47513375819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/95174519251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fibaquitaine.fr/cebatrama/userfiles/files/xiroganurakijopuzetedate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mediaworld.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pavujoridewemebavesodez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b73441a0ac56f24092c624cb643c9f5a/wulowivibegavexologar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://b-solutions.net/userfiles/file/norufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815aa768cb5---35601203765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mf5ndt802tdoi0pl9b6her02t1/lasarofiwususuzekabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dpmceramiche.it/file/19347344458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=triangle+whose+two+angles+are+equalPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f9d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9D6 10680 bytes
SHA-256: f1db3500dd9c6b655e1215489eee525595748493cb340b7e71fcbe9180250bf4
font_01_sfnt_off00011204.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11204 17720 bytes
SHA-256: 08f037ca7ce33b411f9a1ce193e68a1df35c1e9f3b3505308c9bfbc053b88734
font_02_sfnt_off00014125.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14125 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00015936.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15936 16168 bytes
SHA-256: 34837fdfed7e6dc9e8c1ebc45eabef1064a6e89f8cd536305124148a4af1fb29