Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8732307404a5ac7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-23 18:46:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c94312e1ba8763f36f6245879b76f20e SHA-1: e217a47f078d27675d8b512b1c0186199808c790 SHA-256: 8732307404a5ac7e6b77b7d877d40dc61dabd13864e80dbe6334085b6d09e9f0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to other PDF files hosted on various domains. Several heuristics indicate this is a link farm, with some links pointing to compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO spam.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://patriciogaete.com/upload/file/47857768132.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://architettoletiziamasciotta.eu/userfiles/files/87267985137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lineshare.net/upload/files/20210920144334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psk.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81187913977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130738115176---bagokufew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventensis.lt/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tibuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613705cc4ca6f---55491056834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84973ba6fed68813885197d67c6c1672/4634810801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132e3061aca0---lesilawezagegud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salkim.com/userfiles/file/27755522709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-sta.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210905_E8013CB8C50595AB.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seedomoretravel.com/files/files/josotobup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/maketoxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ab9262447b---noxovilexixusawegokomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caudafotografia.com/userfiles/files/vomixipimalamiguxolesonar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad04ff3fc25cff280549b3ebc4a395ac/33423064371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilmatbasim.com/userfiles/file/vexudunitofijadozibiwom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electrodomesticaruano.com/images/ckfinder/files/25619848358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italianopizzeria-pg.com/uploads/files/perogere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaydunglenguyen.vn/upload/files/c87aad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giaydantuongphongkhach.net/images/news/file/gizikitidixeredaxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.huescalamagiaenfotos.com/userfiles/files/zotinukile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterina-naslunci.cz/userfiles/file/17958616566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+unlock+mobile+if+pattern+is+forgottenPDF 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_off0000e285.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE285 11232 bytes
SHA-256: e9468d9f227a8538bcba65d3a3bed4c577636752a584028da4bbf0bc902824c2
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCAE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000114c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114C0 18444 bytes
SHA-256: 65c96a2eb250e507ec478ecd0392713e5d1beed34f19848b9824db5c419355d1