Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8575b9424dd003c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 20:14:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a34b52aa0cb93402a4638c6bd1f8c4ed SHA-1: c50aede2fbc94de4aeb9aef7dc5a53f02ba46241 SHA-256: 8575b9424dd003c82918121ecd341332c091b36d6b976e41b1a65094f102c32e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links strongly supports the link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9806

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://cortopolis.ar/userfiles/file/47871781190.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://progin.swiss/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rukowudanutasigemudoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ur0jpvm041u4na9lep1sl18geh/95722094141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sodrex.pl/userfiles/file/91014042802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34f577f7c58f24cd998823dd09775f29/fimimewevafarulojupoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a402d970b78---bojokorobeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesterek.net/tmp/73966687768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g6dnpb9g3klsdk7g77spt0afl1/64822803786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/bonogavafatodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glbtrader.com/userfiles/file/84249132431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4376bf46152e2e26ce218d01ed9d69ca/26693284645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santamariamikado.com/uploads/files/pevalub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/372b508f406f36676f0b5062cce8229d/jusomaxunaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7sdbu0cidgjr23m2r5l42ro305/88221334950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3u0e3d89joopfc6f6nm6j87fa0/marorinunoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c81f0d4a9e---95220886454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dunajecbiala.pl/upload/File/tetekowixupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbc1308ac56---77057128410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210517175444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a82ee61ca50---rejogimuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2cexpressdemo.com/userfiles/file/56453253417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e9abfcda62---28201803258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5073ad8cd20adce95e2f1c8899ee71ed/78005464314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhdjt.com/images/upload/File/labido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphonedown.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/weterevep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a9231bd275bd0b3e44b4d0d4a133ffd/66804400843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608296bde73a8---nofire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=cost+of+goods+manufactured+and+sold+formulaPDF 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_off00010cac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CAC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000124c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124C3 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 46f96f7e24ada20ac92d7a33616f9ec6194a5bade9c7f6c023034ed2f7e4efa1
font_02_sfnt_off00013daf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DAF 17712 bytes
SHA-256: 0287bf721b1273031ef173378767018d1febb994e09ad36863799a4c615b28be