Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a05f8436ca297cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-07-08 17:30:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 924bfda2b29ec970cd9d8c9c06c9e43e SHA-1: d435b4e43e2034ffc9f30622fdfaa24b67054f0e SHA-256: 8a05f8436ca297cf69cdcbf75f8d11d6db9b27d0c97acee6848c4ff4d60b05c3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF itself does not contain readable content, but its structure and embedded links indicate an attempt to lure users to external, potentially harmful, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e570a3945339e7d0295cb3e209a14caf/lopilowiralukupajob.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c486ab11a99---12630640982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/72611189130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ebe6a2938d---savugesazowedop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/83836192354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5f109e477---rasep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtvxm.vn/userfiles/file/93890712001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cubic.is/userfiles/file/35436216422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a37f62d2cd8---54199516383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa457fa7252---retevozudara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parzenica-bialka.pl/userfiles/files/97096884696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stsaischoolamritsar.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/kezixurapefinowakodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5817k62detobbg7vclatfpmfa4/82449738842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160878d7470813---bawabigipetoribisozupitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tvsporedi.si/vsebina/nuruwamomati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160825aa74a614---70735089684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d540ba960c---86933176612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079db3a8178c---womodamulerurefosilet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fid5arodi33s8nb8adu2dtr2a7/32199995884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntpuvoice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54304225182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9188859740---gurimemero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b88a61603a1a3da87a145c9f45abcc92/35835933518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veterinarycarefoundation.org/userfiles/file/jubuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aee01c20584---24319356921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f266258e30---worukosirosugewefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=social+constructivism+meaningPDF 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_off0000ec99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC99 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 3a949ec68578ab27b4ca0078ed6c7205637037bc8fce84022b88f031143eeb21
font_01_sfnt_off00010588.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10588 16400 bytes
SHA-256: 043920c3f48b974b2d5779c704355377767f5cf051a8818798439ad64636c7fa
font_02_sfnt_off00012fc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FC5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1