Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8735be9145e9abff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 04:25:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 5d9d885ba85774efa50d07d4cfe31c73 SHA-1: e53328365982565d63004fbc660c20b4901f1eed SHA-256: 8735be9145e9abffcb3b91972e2d11c30ca5294081d3c17c278f679dde3bc541
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. This behavior is indicative of a link farm, often used for SEO manipulation or to host phishing lures. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=quran+online+pdf+english PDF link annotation
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g0nb0aau6jo7rc1nvr5e6figg1/90743463170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etrustmi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pasewekajexitijifazel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/labonorikesubixul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butterfly-propertymanagement.com/userfiles/file/61676125402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badeluxe.com/userfiles/files/sinopixubok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cerquilho.sp.gov.br/public/admin/globalarq/uploads/files/27703277785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fee74b7d74b9855405eb9ef168fb2607/89631872140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ad634679dc22339eac4c53f58046c45/xepusivufoxemudamaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilot-nav.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32529160253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613694f71fab4---dotezevetapeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b5d643c4ff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087cbb3f0556---55126262609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/223ceda7914070d703deab0a62f35509/xozipubufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3dprofi.net/images/uploads/file/pemud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfed32b8185---62061176735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychologgia.pl/Upload/file/jukeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beepost.vn/upload/userfiles/files/91504370819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/dodevixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lohs69.com/clients/82366/File/67210670843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7mbh0qgbojm3dfacj4cepo0l0t/41673083989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salman-group.com/userfiles/file/patefaxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b24b213799769b02ebafa3ed4ef0273/89291060839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/24868682538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081210c2ab88---niramemaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c15d0d054---kunanimifef.pdfIn 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://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_off0000eede.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEDE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106F0 17844 bytes
SHA-256: 7c57c0f3d482b08cb6db6dcafa4df9235f29bab610fc09fead56eff33c49bb6a
font_02_sfnt_off0001350f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1350F 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 23c6a9ab870542dc9c0513685220510ed4ae86ed6b8451dc0083d9d1e7b3ee42