Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8499c72e0ae83e46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 22:14:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 77b0df78778fc235eec416b1af5b842d SHA-1: 2377983d271104b94ec6f553fa49ae6e067113ba SHA-256: 8499c72e0ae83e4676659140064e16d186a61787cc1c4965aa4505a8ca5b2c12
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Numerous heuristics point to the PDF acting as a link farm, with many external URIs pointing to compromised or disposable hosting. The presence of multiple links to PDF files on these domains suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://srmresidences.com/images/bulk_images/files/2927449560.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ticaproduce.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xobodudirew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://czus-lukasa.sk/userfiles/file/kokuwetikomoperi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bischofs-scheune.de/userfiles/file/77559153080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5baebf340384e62cb3698cb71c2939ad/1784535300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skonasystems.com/userfiles/file/garoxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-pisanie-prac.pl/famprojekt_z_serwera/images/file/gorowogubinojarenuwuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://virker-ikke.dk/files/tamoloned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e21dce766a0---sepilomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techscreening.com/userfiles/files/14508038971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44484d44e212198de36d8da39c58058f/81216000087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077585f3d342---70459496287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whiteplacard.com/UserFiles/file/313384016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtglass.pl/upload/file/4130422687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://195exim.com/datas/files/wifelodegesisokuwow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/96328047722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zvezda-rostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wemazebujivujaxafivadina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/noxuvurutipurekapukofobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9rn6o9ajiqbp319qetkn4saiv/26586626019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607460291594f---56674457053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.nl/userfiles/file/80617198678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e18face41f5ae78dcb7d3cf737e21e31/20027785213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratco-hardware.com/Ups/files/lekudadimebadesewuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdb77f1ea8d---rosis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creaorganization.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/zubodogamafezudunajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.c-l-r-p.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36668050988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a44ea1b8bfa---fulagazuvevirefimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=year+1+addition+and+subtraction+worksheets+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_off0000dfc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFC4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7DB 11124 bytes
SHA-256: 2413d0a1959ea6d18f78f51b21852396f70fd84886a4c8fc138e702baf3c7d72
font_02_sfnt_off000111a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111A4 17380 bytes
SHA-256: f2503ad0ec69d8f2d53945846e35a77eab01a078f6d9bdeb4d8bcce6bb2e36ce