Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8532d303767c25d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:46:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 00ee72a398a0683b4593bfe5683b1ec0 SHA-1: 1b7b1ef9c39df1a545d472d80b51dce688b38610 SHA-256: 8532d303767c25d56fa512a1dec2642aee2699be54e38094c3bab305ffd4bc2d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF structure itself point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/gatuz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://egyptsuntours.com/userfiles/files/93884452660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodcomputers.ro/2664/uploads/88404115201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smepil.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/22609144115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37nl6qhqh2fdgng8urs64euejh/12332195538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuanxuongmonmb.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/92447596585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ou-ravda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guporug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discovercefalu.it/_data/images/file/pukodimefitofevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altbuket.ru/files/faforolatujalapojatewitel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.be/userfiles/file/gemufenegud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sdu29amk4buioqeeui3hfsapn4/25499192164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dydlhx.com/upfiles/file///bazedafikimuwigefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83ac82297c2fce40baf785d15b4e92bd/vubugina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adfdcf80838---tujutegewesetuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/2021622166152347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolaviano.it/userfiles/files/wexuxodovuredapubotiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0bfbe7fcbc---buxozebow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c87fb6420---livarusose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://publicbridge.pl/userfiles/file/tezasafegelabenexita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacinsara.ro/fckfiles/file/diwux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shopabrang.com/images/files/gazujutabaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15441707.com/data/board/file/20210803043218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/76195452268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tyko.pl/userfiles/file/67335822938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=making+questions+present+simple+exercises+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_off0000bf97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF97 11396 bytes
SHA-256: b05af3f904b6204d5e0652f1ac005d0ad1cc724371a7670063fabc87ce47c5ed
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9F4 16228 bytes
SHA-256: 04620869a2791c703515b13246ff34d45e726a5d8cc8f9eaa95f8b94a6c7f406
font_02_sfnt_off0001037f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1037F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1