Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8588ca56ececf05a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2021-09-25 13:37:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 8be9225889f6eeac5233efc805484402 SHA-1: 94a96dfbfda94f5febc58e6a03e98e34f3147657 SHA-256: 8588ca56ececf05a387b76e05f84ee7184092d8fec5c89a19aabca034b14c564
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable domains, indicative of a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a multi-stage attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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 http://myappartement.de/web/editor/files/42932732597.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://network-italia.com/file/92631382252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baongochoa.com/upload/file/33540161816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oapg2g96l0hnis0mmiu17imdvr/tibenanalozizobavon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148045398309---birovulopapabekiwefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sec-ollivier-associes.fr/www/upload/file/46026776831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanchariglobal.com/userfiles/file/2602394277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huile-de-nigelle.info/userfiles/file/xalizupod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://franchiseharbor.com/files/files/gulirisoximoliborez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebel-moscow.com/content/xuploadimages/file/85984062389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricoconsultingattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/81094493703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npi-management.com/ressource/site-image/files/12471620037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://produse-zilan.ro/files/walukozafuxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interface-referencement.com/userfiles/file/pujebarifuvosujugus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remobudostol.pl/pliki/xesobemivomomemadazumaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e6303b9e2b---76964533523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mannadey.in/FCKeditor/file/kojudisaxevumubizuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1night2day.com/UserFiles/file/xeduxalabelisapiguwokuxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwjefferson.com/uploads/files/tifogosixitetiralubifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dfd3c5a6d6---vukebajesudixugomidozus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161402bb2245c9---939276412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simorgh.it/uploads/file/29526403597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innovatepc.com/userfiles/file/95814203358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneolock.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/75768587154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xyoaa.org/sites/default/files/files/40507473030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=gitignore+for+android+studio+projectPDF 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_off0000b0cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0CB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8E2 11020 bytes
SHA-256: 4e64cbf81916ef6148e0658bdab604e1344bc94a8c79fd690285669f80ee297a
font_02_sfnt_off0000e272.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE272 14592 bytes
SHA-256: 42360edcb951f8487875e5879d4ae91c223493246e86e6f115cee35a43f8fe6b

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