Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8762a1a94e59ce6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-06-28 23:17:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 76e7215faa6427678e571cab844df303 SHA-1: d182a63378174c76bdb63dd56efb6be360f57c11 SHA-256: 8762a1a94e59ce6c8e98136276a4b95d60ebb2db30bf0e3015df55d53635d678
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on multiple compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous URLs pointing to potentially malicious files and the overall structure of the PDF indicate it is designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1dd8b376f21a0d8e008f56691fe6c45/32041929624.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f327fd84e5182d601d328a0502829bb6/24900868719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bee69afb7d---gojalelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/58572378885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160947448baeef---39002254702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9df56468b41b2d0c36d664378a68cd19/guginobetovoguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://communeouchamps.fr/userfiles/file/rutukavusenawoxinawux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a79c54e25---74557948097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91ab3db30b62aaa79adadb2342af3fe0/figafirotenofowugawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rainbowfurnitures.com/files/files/64255202319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1v3g0st7aejfrqp4k6agv5fa52/jawiroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa09b9696c0---81120372273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abe39cdd404---80789667016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--49s538bo8ux8c.net/userfiles/file/bulojozozolajijifiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6604b8c7fff3746a2271d728f50ba21e/lozufesafidotizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h61c7rvu1su415g5rko6jkh146/wulumido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a47aaeaf5---79988591049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8d61c5f31b---sepunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607942d13c89f---rupodugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddf65f8ba5bbee38f58a6ea8b0ea8edf/soperibulerefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784afbaa93e---bovefusutunejimevag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umutisi.com/umut/upload/files/96516543343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4b2e4ef651---wowigoriwude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=download+gta+san+andreas+latest+version+for+pcPDF 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_off0000d938.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD938 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 93cb778751de8233eef2cf805c7534a06631922471189ad43756db4f6cde940a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f297.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF297 17204 bytes
SHA-256: 19017af88db7574bf0bdc12b386764c2d60c70dd06a533879ec23ccd9460cf91
font_02_sfnt_off00011f33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F33 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1