Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8597b6b845ad0abf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-08-17 09:04:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 33fc0b05d912358ea7782f755cb7d9c9 SHA-1: 117d098f5b5669bb42d6cce342594657bd91691d SHA-256: 8597b6b845ad0abfeb7fd76575605fc61b9fab29a647d4b49c45ada3e422b942
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple PDF files hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure points to a malicious document designed to lure users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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 https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f13f86b3e8---51287672660.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1j44snof3vma6pkoh7i79q7d2j/jokimugosapakegogiromob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://93564497.com/userfiles/75846903405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutranghongngoc.com/media/ftp/file/26376884094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ligneus.hu/upload/file/motakemapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettaletroom.com/file_media/file_image/file/288987514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klcmekatronik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71405261731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db766240ba2ab511b1ea0e4357abe1a6/42121720830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ad7e8b8f1e---kaxojojafisag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klhl.com/userfiles/file/fajajotiwulututajowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3f7c9053cd---fodusamigozivafitorid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-plzen.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pezezarat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed2839c8930ec4c9eafae6bd072786de/jobememi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galluccifaibano.com/userfiles/file/71111520719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/valegabaloditita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ksmt.edu.np/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40554525240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160874a28adeaa---gawopejukajubiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lhtbts8a2lb4g8b850iohsfr7o/suzevivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075786475a69---52889753632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77cf7dcfe79907ebea943deec59a40d8/fezosasukiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyotiacademicpress.org/uploads/file/84916389061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakkervoorwinde.nl/app/webroot/files/ckeditor_files/files/80939813078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=dinosaur+king+games+free+download+for+windows+7PDF 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_off0000de8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE8D 16480 bytes
SHA-256: 3f976b7ddb2b0a7ac754e0598a0c1e3c6c1e0211b539da4c955379bd274c730e
font_01_sfnt_off000108e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108E3 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 3c225c83da48a1e156e5d7041ce52fc1423f1b41c64f3fb73027602f34c1fdd2
font_02_sfnt_off0001221a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1221A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1