Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8430bdfb173b1158…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-08-17 14:29:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ce01071175357dbd3caa46b42820d9a1 SHA-1: 5e22b7bfc101dc3dd2f4555972a27ec1ac135c50 SHA-256: 8430bdfb173b11583548592644cff235769b779c25c638710dea32d29adca935
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to exploit users through these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9925

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://2015.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/salod.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://najlepsze-w-polsce.pl/uploads/godajanakowobunumujivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannermaul.com/userData/board/file/mikabureworubekopureli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77e30079d5bf89ccae64cee19ca924bf/97481826157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imaggu.com/ci/userfiles/files/54834442489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0503776c93714534a8507e505f47ee1d/20837574222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5085241720---jigutifaluxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giftboxvietthuy.com/upload/ck/files/35972953625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60827731879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/99769284143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stoneappeal.in/FCKeditor/file/56749869367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b98d18359fb00faa18075b1c9e50374/sabusuletifanusunabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlbooks.in/data/eimages/file/32722921202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.se/upload/ladupowajifazufakifawexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b343a946ff---zozarakagoxotorudel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/pibuzenijak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d73198b3eb8---fedaxototuxezixadamav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089a0119bc13---tivojopepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae5b839373f---41972248542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emailposte.com/pictures/87551455125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhk-aindling.com/userfiles/files/78804796479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60efb45698b1cd8e6663da395bd0859d/senudotekajesixazip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5kerkj0taj9so3rbc2ril6uh5i/varisorabiwizukarisepago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803fbb0e4c2---xipaxugifosapasibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sardavetri.it/userfiles/file/51786833052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citygclub.com/ckupload/files/lexanezotidemupalajiwepir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=medical+surgical+nursing+8th+edition+pdf+freePDF 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_off0000e41f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE41F 11200 bytes
SHA-256: 9648ac7fbe04c447b3e7e1fa08e3db4fb835f55497751d7997d0f590e719af81
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE05 16540 bytes
SHA-256: a69e0b358390b255d5ee1d68695002ef48fa4d6badc2ab88fcbc944a18b03ce6
font_02_sfnt_off00012899.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12899 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1