Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8718d8bb942941e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.9 KB Created: 2021-06-11 07:44:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 11a00465e06a66297fd17fe4d442a08b SHA-1: 470a5ff3a1707849a0fc5f458274be9cd0ff3069 SHA-256: 8718d8bb942941e1cff551aca4a81849d0c6ac0265682b7d0d6ef27fc6c3d946
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=home+alone+1992 PDF link annotation
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc297f4d49216f5005295b9e465f5022/63920125891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe82a061ad---17361822880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/1571473742608de09e4e227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/70991527303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17bcch7fb21tv9v3isq94c6cm1/32174473960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160873f029b269---92868994391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3c56f24c8044872c237cf28f6c33619/15771282160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/xixujawenajigizobogoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9ieg0g8r6fhpbugmvrhammsuu/tuwedapimep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thingsantiquesla.com/userfiles/files/3933370354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursakaynak.com/userfiles/file/84286120808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tramtron.vn/uploads/files/files/76103869635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075eea70dd1d---monutekofubavewujabisufax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729c7ebc38e---18044541418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000166af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x166AF 4860 bytes
SHA-256: 911a212dbdf4b216b49b7e7c43e39442e154cfbd0a21e3e0d30b1961d46431b6
font_01_sfnt_off0001772a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1772A 12020 bytes
SHA-256: 68f6a4b197676db95fafed2bf43615237df0b8c027a4fa497a000c05d9e61114

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