Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8545f1ad147cb06a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-07-02 14:34:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 49e2e15405f9164c5f3593746d38967e SHA-1: b66608cf06d7bfd1f62b311b2390e085d0995383 SHA-256: 8545f1ad147cb06ad408a120a2215694c2aa191cc697e7dd5faf5770433b47b9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to other PDF files hosted on potentially compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is not intended for direct user interaction but rather to facilitate the exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities or to serve as a redirector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://zweefvlieg.net/userfiles/file/mobokuxibebe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d2492455fd---supopijixivodokifawubevek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evermoral.hk/upload/file/1624551741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashioke.com/images/library/File/waneguzuwavoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/966c4520a427ef1d0521fe987850f8c0/31644258119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodegaadrover.com/userfiles//imagenes/pogokuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getadoc.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vipiduzaredusizitipoleno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b5660cc7c59e9ab841dad94017bad49/xisexanuwijix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krassimirtaskov.com/userfiles/files/9435492769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089bd7c825a6---39349898692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tempegaring.com/contents//files/potavuxirimel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canphantich.net/Images_upload/files/2059811590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/vizudutar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandegroup.net/files/62485124448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba5a2bead54---guroregixibozono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liddellgaryfamily.com/clients/863293/File/16336324688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/jupopov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarlampa.ru/upload_picture/jodari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3colorjazz.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/sanabatuxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maristaslardero.es/userfiles/file/rosademiwamut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc208b973cd---93801585138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukicda.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021060305441280554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rakkhunnursinghome.com/user_img/files/71878432297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f18fb412e3---66310297356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=pharmaceutical+application+of+colloids+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_off0000e779.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE779 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 19ae6b7ee164adc82e603ec4dbfe6bba7413b2e5b3cb70b01369ed805fe38c91
font_01_sfnt_off000100c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100C9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000118db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118DB 17732 bytes
SHA-256: 70dbc5d86c11f9f9564d1b924ec12f58fe40dcd2c2f4f1a9ec88d78bc6456945