Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8935de6e16c0d304…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 10:21:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 7d42620405bcbe2bb5e9c20ced7c0e1a SHA-1: 16bf27b429c1d2424e00a99d47ea4999ba6496ad SHA-256: 8935de6e16c0d304b89407684b669fb0173060215caeaad46d8d862197c9dfa2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to potentially compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802f6446260---folazas.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee82f255a2a0ef515569a7d11190bc45/40478467210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spy-military-labs.com/userfiles/file/9017570979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snft.ro/media/file/badikeroxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ud2-140.com/files/solodulevejesevuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1734cb828675a8ced90f205bb3e7e86a/setitinafame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belv.ru/userfiles/file/65649471700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gabrielamaciel.net/images/content/file/23569713429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lachina.cn/upload/file/wiwexopefexon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86nfhhag1buldriilmuola0vfu/70744255446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamlulanjina.com/upload/files/fajisoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a85be0a371---fizewaripajuzemaropesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2jluh0t5rdk961g1vpnjp1d4uc/86554394451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://local-atlas.ru/userfiles/files/vipek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quiltingacademy.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/27254493315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e792a904a---76770742703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwynva.com/clients/d/de/de91e19d235d8a3764238851c6b73f99/File/51801550913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laclonghotel.vn/upload/files/53622534524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e76f93c018f---menigovalodotofomowunewer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://culbertsonlawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/rifofigezugamewutofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/52310873459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160780894330bf---wamejamagafokifuleximi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bd37d757a5---pepevozixorotejixunas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=social+work+practice+with+families+van+hook+pdfPDF 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_off0000c5ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5EE 11204 bytes
SHA-256: ba52a64b5a41454099dfec6251b2864a8d6ea6c8c426c679b3fbbc4738e563db
font_01_sfnt_off0000e003.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE003 18404 bytes
SHA-256: a20dcfc19ce45145a989322095fabed1f1e433ebeb8f330fb7d38dd44c8e0e0f
font_02_sfnt_off0001105d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1105D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1