Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8967dab5215ef7de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 10:02:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 35607608323020bafcdbf663ea797c6d SHA-1: 171d1da34ef71bb0c1eb94e7e6db790191149127 SHA-256: 8967dab5215ef7de592de1c7278d5131a0852b33f73dcea28598e5f431c90072
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it likely serves as a phishing or malware distribution lure. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous external URIs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting domains. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the links suggests potential for exploitation or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

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://theemasternetworker.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sibakelimituzovowonemep.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://casaperferiesantamariagoretti.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/68800456021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f19b4b8a9f---1454331874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607113c784d80---15041091054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanstime.com/userData/board/file/nifurefasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612dd40857b4b---65273534717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ba6b18e476---lezemaradadalos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldwidefilipinoalliance.com/uploadedFiles/files/24422548470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fb0ce3682e63658e455bf88ef02c19f/42892759683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fdde4a55ce---rovomozemupufijobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-2/20210502005356639752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartstone.ca/userfiles/files/65161207484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25v3vpq652sc1gt2uon1vc7891/22171708235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72a34db62fc15e474de44b9a0ee29855/tegatavetebawowudifelido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddb2865a93e---tibosuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energy-labels.com/userfiles/file/xogofuxebejakesanetab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e875cad524d---wiwumaxupujarenorabaratu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeci.nl/im/image/vemurigifolekozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sproname.com/files/userfiles/files/61625708563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensionpoint.cz/userfiles/files/52846108938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2ddb7da4a2---37117603882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leposeur.fr/site/upload/ckfinder/files/6524418855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b25cb63570c836e00ac619da552daf45/64968775878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7311ccd0866436ae7fabb439a8f5871/zumemesomevidetur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msmzizkov.cz/data/dokumenty/41364356661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gfu0eomlvv62cltdn85v18cirr/kojixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://446888.top/userfiles/file/jasogimowuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=p+d+sharma+ecology+and+environment+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_off0000c53e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC53E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD55 11248 bytes
SHA-256: 9be5d592c4de8c1120c3cf9068db3ce177368bd52edf1346762bba8711c556ab
font_02_sfnt_off0000f75a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF75A 16876 bytes
SHA-256: 0e667012b3d91e2b4d73aa7fa17c831390dae1cd163824d92be26d8d19da1f08