Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a05fdab9511cf96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-08-31 04:42:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 9f762794a1729aef0c888712d222553c SHA-1: e75c6c28292afabc771cf6c1d511036a9aae024c SHA-256: 8a05fdab9511cf967e34b240090cea4d63e6d6b409f1e8f58bd0d0790af3aa9f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. These links likely lead to phishing sites or further malware delivery, consistent with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 http://fabriziocar.it/userfiles/files/73084385895.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sambelteri.com/contents//files/tajalowubejofozibarete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7954da8a0b---88224813484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://childconcern.in/trila/userfiles/file/51437685342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c77dd46974---91699100269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensjonatagat.pl/userfiles/file/11344726006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7um3f8dd5ruam7rs7k9a4l80g/86021166414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/vobepokeporuturajina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rv5bp8f0f6mn1iu8i7afjenr2q/42433461507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arichaindia.com/userfiles/file/vorevokuwoxuniforuzajaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff75e0203b4---zaxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clearpatth.com/userfiles/file/muzunavimoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ebea10f3fdd68342b991c4a14b25f39/zofetadupiximafewusenuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macroedunet.com/userfiles/file/jaxiwozolaridadunulodolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05b5f7cb2e341e9abfdb6b257a0ecaa0/90987449104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airsoft1.ro/files/file/77377654995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd5c86c8faed97a47fc09c25d4b53497/vogerofajigeravawimojasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ysenb.kr/board/file/editor/file/66035587190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antonioruizabogados.es/userfiles/file/40758147306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khotelmarket.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210708_17DCEA6F1CB627D2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202105120315577462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksboutlet.com/file/files/wejebunigok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b871cb41b29a0a2756663ebea29f782/lifivegusixafovebamisir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotararicedo.ro/files/files/856012917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=that+looks+on+tempests+and+is+never+shakenPDF 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_off0000bea9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEA9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6C0 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 6038f84d4df70635ac9d10b8012de710b32b33f49b0273216a993156755bb7ec
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF65 16516 bytes
SHA-256: 06dec45e408e357a935a4b75a0017bdb9aa0143754e92c7d7a3c14e6f6887ecd