Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8536f7e46033ea62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-09 08:53:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: a45e564f048a4c5ca00905eb6a2abf4f SHA-1: b95c6bfba4a1fefd86afb1b73c11b2e0a4750117 SHA-256: 8536f7e46033ea629036687d6385fa6a4fc029ecc7eaca412241deac76e953a6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://ffarchitettura.it/userfiles/files/1439042120.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://veganogle.es/uploads/ckfinder/files/jofokufiginobizudinutup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.willmarshelter.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sumazubegopuvirelubesano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linhngapt.vn/upload/files/15609086817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139977b2e833---kepuxefesovugoviroku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motolargo.pl/userfiles/file/29899436655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotararicedo.ro/files/files/kurofawut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/tisozurudaguxiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafjbawrcdgsodbdciig4a5v.xn--p1ai/pict/file/senasov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afritransport.com/app/webroot/files/file/golenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135cbcc227f4---71366633737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klpa.net/userData/board/file/luzinesiguvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/036d6cef82c5a718df80c57be73068a1/babodasov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albertf.madteam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30905217252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roleco.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/finagewilifoganaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibookingkr.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210903_281269BEAA3768FE.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotec-industrie.be/userfiles/file/90748229640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mathcountsoutreach.org/userfiles/file/guxosuvutipuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bikaji.zohukum.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mipuzuposejokabudufin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rgn2u.com/userfiles/files/welawupawolisusuroba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.velkoobchod-man.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pilogipatuvofuwixumidiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajur.rest/uploads/userfiles/file/31244321445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimkhimientrung.com/uploads/image/files/rebotojode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electriccityusa.com/images/fck_uploads/file/nawisexuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donghotam.com/luutru/files/16405978083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellarp.com/userfiles/file/ziparowulegisopadajimux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+play+marvel+vs+capcom+2+on+androidPDF 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_off0000e3d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3D5 18408 bytes
SHA-256: 7173f9a3901ae38c630b130a2e9f0317377ced893f71fd7976e07aba9092f71e
font_01_sfnt_off0001132a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1132A 11052 bytes
SHA-256: fb3aba306a0bb10756c293d7720abe29274eb39adee4544e9e4e39bf66119862
font_02_sfnt_off00012d04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D04 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1